Hi Peter, Am 25.01.2017 um 12:36 schrieb Peter Czanik: > On 01/07/2017 07:50 PM, Josua Mayer wrote: >> It is an early version of the 8040 Community Board by SolidRun running a >> patched 4.9.0 kernel with the 42.2 rootfs > Hi, > > What are your experiences with this board? Does it run with an upstream > kernel or still needs many patches? I have not checked with upstream on which components are still missing. However we are fortunate enough to have Russell King spend time on working it out. He has a "mcbin" branch on his git tree that might give you an idea on what the status is. >From my point 4.10-rc6 works reasonably well, however I have already found a bug stopping the marvell xor v2 driver from working.
> Is it SBSA compliant? I have no idea. I had a quick look and uefi appears to be a key component of this specification. The board runs u-boot from either spi flash, emmc, sdcard or sata. So it should be doable, but the current u-boot binary I got does not come with any of the new efi features of u-boot. > > I'm asking, because I can't decide between two ARMv8 systems: > - SoftIron's Overdrive 1000 has rock solid Linux support and comes > completely assembled. Both are a huge bonus, as I'm too old and too busy > to fetch parts and assemble it myself. On the other hand it's quite > limited on ports. > - SolidRuns Community board needs a lot of work to get it running, on > the other hand it has more SATA and Ethernet ports, expandable via PCIe. > > Bye, > CzP > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
