On Jul 27, 2013 19:26 "Davide" <louigi...@yahoo.it> wrote: > > > >> I haven't got a a20 (or earlier) device to play with (yet), but I > >> am > >> forwarding this email to arm-netbook. I hope this will raise > >> interest > >> of having Slackware on the Allwinner. > > >I am preparing a generic armv6 and onwards Linux 3.10 kernel (the > >separate 'kirkwood' and 'versatile' kernels will remain as is because > >the > >armv5 support has not been consolidated). > > >Initially I'll make sure that the existing 'Tegra' works since that's > >what I'm using > >as the main build machine, but I have also added support for > >Allwinner: > > >[*] Allwinner A1X SOCs > > >Of course, there will be plenty of other drivers and so on that would > >be > >required which someone can furnish me with at a later date once I > >push out > >the kernels. > > Supporting Allwinner SOC would really probabbly require a 3.0 or a 3.4 > kernel from the linux-sunxi branch > (https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi) as many patches have not > made it to kernel.org, or searching around for the patches to apply to > vanilla kernel (that will will be probabbly conceived for ither a 3.0 > or a 3.4 kernel anyway). > But if you come up with something to test I can see if it works on my > XZPAD700. > > ATB > David > > I noticed RPi patches also not making it into kernel.org. Last weekend > I tried to compile a generic 3.10.1 kernel for the RPi and it failed > to boot. Rather than patch kernel source for a specific ARM target, > are we expected to use the generic kernel and build a device tree > binary? >
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