On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Simos Xenitellis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:22:21PM +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I asked Allwinner about the possibility of donation of a few A80 >> > developer >> > boards to developers and I got a positive response. So, I'll be doing >> > the >> > clerical work to arrange the donation. >> > >> > There should be several batches of boards being donated. >> > This first batch is for five A80 OptimusBoard developer boards. I think >> > they should be coming in the packaging that is shown at >> > http://community.arm.com/thread/6449 >> > >> > The criteria are: >> > 1. You have already done some relevant work with other Allwinner SoCs. >> > 2. You plan to do work with the board towards mainline Linux support >> > (describe what). >> > This also includes any work with u-boot or other packages that let the >> > A80 >> > boot with a mainline kernel. >> > >> > Send me mail in private if you are interested to receive one. >> > I'll process the requests and forward to Allwinner so that they can send >> > the boards. >> > If there are more than five requests, I'll keep the details for the >> > subsequent batch. >> > >> > Simos >> >> Thanks for doing this. >> >> In the past, how this has worked is that someone (Alejandro) went around >> the usual suspects, asked whether they were interested, and then >> collected addresses. But you probably have your reasons for approaching >> this differently. >> > > This would run the risk of me missing a few developers. > > I think it is good to have an open call. It lets people know what efforts > are happening. > I was considering whether to also have the requests public. This might > happen with the second batch. > > In any case, I'll e-mail those developers that have not posted recently to > the list in case they miss this thread. > > For this first batch of A80 boards, I think it would make sense to focus on > the core issues to get to run the mainline kernel, > at least in a headless setting. And the kernel should run reliably, which > means it is OK to have several requests for the same work.
Thank you for the effort. Just want to say that I have started a minimal bringup branch: https://github.com/wens/linux/tree/wip/sun9i All the numbers should be correct. Unfortunately, I have not been able to boot it. It seems the FEL mode protocol has changed. fel from sunxi-tools doesn't work. Android fastboot hangs after loading the kernel. Using Allwinner's boot0 from mmc doesn't work either. boot0 fails to initialize mmc, and can't load the next stage (u-boot). ChenYu > Some of the requests that I received are for non-essential hardware > functionality. They are useful, and I'll be keeping those requests for the > second batch. > The five slots have not been filled yet, so do mail me for your A80 boards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
