OK - I get it. The necessary work to upstream has not been done. I will try to squeeze that in my schedule and move this forward.
Additional data points from me: 1. The Fedora's beta arm 31 do not boot at all on the device - neither the aarch64 server ones, nor the armhfp ones. 2. Olimex provided Ubuntu runs fine 3. Armbian's images start booting but never finish. https://www.armbian.com/olimex-teres-a64/ In order to continue I need 2 things, right? * The device tree which is the configuration given to the kernel at boot time describing the available hardware * The boot firmware In principle both should be obtainable from my running configuration. I will also contact Olimex that I will be trying to upstream this. Can I continue pinging via the mail list of my status? I would rather not use IRC. Kind regards: al_shopov На нд, 22.09.2019 г. в 10:05 ч. Peter Robinson <[email protected]> написа: > > > I have the following device: DIY Laptop by Olimex > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ > > > > It is a 2GB A64 Cortex A53 Quad core 64-bit processor based. > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/SPARE-PARTS/TERES-PCB1-A64/open-source-hardware > > We support a bunch of the AllWinner based a64 devices. > > > There are several options for running Linux on it, but Fedora is not among > > them > > https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/tree/master/SOFTWARE/A64-TERES > > > > I did not manage to run the latest stable Fedora on it. > > > > How can I help with getting Fedora on this laptop? Is there a how-to > > for getting this to run? > > Basically we need upstream support for the device in U-Boot (firmware) > and the kernel (a device tree). Olimex are historically terrible and > contributing anything to the upstream projects and as a result are > generally considered as "community supported" devices which ends up > being either someone does the work to get the required bits upstream > or someone hacks together something that works enough for them and it > never ends up being more widely supported. > > All the userspace pieces should work just fine, it should even be > possible to get accelerated open graphics via the lima driver although > I've not had time to test that on any of the Allwinner devices I have. > > Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
