On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:19:22 +0100 Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I tried to load the spidev driver with the 3.4 kernel and it did .. nothing. AFAIK, Olimex cares about having stuff like I2C and SPI working. But they are using their own patched sunxi-3.4 kernel forks. Maybe you can try to check what Olimex is offering? And if they have some extra fixes, then maybe it makes sense to push them into the sunxi-3.4 kernel? > > So I upgraded to linux 4.0rc4 and tried to convince it to boot on the > a10s olinuxino. > > Problems > > 1) no serial input (possibly wiring issue - need to investigate) > > 2) no USB HID input > > 3) display does not work properly in u-boot - no signal on one DVI > screen, red console background on another DVI screen These look like u-boot problems. And they should be reported to the u-boot mailing list. > 4) did not manage to get simplefb working. It is configured but the > image on the screen does not change after Starting kernel ... Are you sure that you also have the CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y kernel option? Not enabling this option and expecting kernel messages on the monitor (if "console=tty1" is set in the kernel cmdline) and also a login prompt on the monitor seems to be a rather popular mistake. > 5) did not manage to get SPI working. I patched the DT with some > random values but the driver complains that there is unsupported > function > > https://github.com/hramrach/linux-sunxi/commit/fba83a07ce3261b77f5cd3fac43f78adee4b33dd > > 6) I have no idea how to bind spidev (in DT?) even if spi worked > > Anyone has some idea how to make SPI work on A10s Olinuxino? > > I can build an UEXT adaptor for Cubieboard but the connectors on > Olinuxino are way more convenient to work with hardware-wise. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka -- 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.
