Hi,
On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 22:40 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 02/07/2015 05:07 PM, Craig Lanning wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 09:33 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 02/07/2015 12:32 AM, Craig Lanning wrote:
>>> Does Rawhide have any code to deal with the LDC panel for Olimex boards
>>> (Allwinner A10s CPU)?
>>>
>>> I thought I saw somewhere that it has some early support for the LCD
>>> panel.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the Xfce rawhide image (in hopes that it would use the
>>> LCD), wrote it to an SD card, installed the uboot image, and booted it.
>>>
>>> It started running through its boot messages on the console. Asked me
>>> the Setup questions. Finally it continued to a login prompt on the
>>> console. I logged in and can use the console. I looked through the
>>> output from "dmesg" but didn't see anything about the LCD.
>>>
>>> I have a 7 inch LCD (800x480) and an HDMI port that I could hook to an
>>> HD monitor (1920x1080). I am glad that even though I used a
"graphical"
>>> image, when it didn't find a display device, it used the console.
>>>
>>> Was I mistaken about it doing anything with the LCD panel, or is there
>>> some additional configuration that I need to do for it to work?
>>>
>>> If it doesn't support the LCD, does it support the HDMI port?
>>
>> Rawhide as of today supports the hdmi port with 1024x768, once
>> rawhide gets u-boot v2015.04-rc1 it will also support EDID and use
>> your monitors native resolution.
>>
>> The LCD will work, but you need to build your own u-boot:
>>
>> dnf install gcc-arm-linux-gnu
>> git clone
https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi.git
>> cd u-boot-sunxi
>> git checkout -B sunxi-wip origin/sunxi-wip
>>
>> Then edit configs/A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig and
configs/A13-OLinuXino_defconfig
>> in the latter you will find a number of CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_... lines in there,
>> copy those over to the configs/A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig file.
>>
>> Then replace CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_POWER="AXP0-0" with
>> CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_POWER="PB9"
>>
>> And then do the following to build / install:
>>
>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig
>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu-
>> sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8
>>
>> You will also need an updated dtb, I've attached it for you, simply
>> drop the .dtb file into the dtb-3.... dir on the boot partition.
>>
>> After this u-boot should light up the lcd showin the u-boot tux
>> on gray waterdrop background and some boot messages, and the kernel
>> should take over the lcd framebuffer.
>
> When I booted the board, it lit up the LCD, displayed the Linux logo,
> displayed some text like it was booting. This text appeared to match
> what was being displayed on the console. When the console showed this:
>
> Setting up a 800x480 lcd console
> In: serial
> Out: vga
> Err: vga
> Net: emac
> Starting USB...
> USB0:
>
> The LCD went blank and the whole board seemed to freeze.
>
> Any ideas?
Only thing I can think of is that the power supply for the board is
not powerful enough, how are you powering the board ?
External supply. 5.1V 0.7A
Yeah, I might need to look into something at least 1.0A.
> Incidentally, earlier in the boot sequence it printed this:
>
> CPU: Allwinner A10s (SUN5I)
> I2C: ready
> DRAM: 512 MiB
> MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
> Is this from me overwriting parts of the SD card without updating its
> idea of the CRC?
The bad CRC message is normal, u-boot can save its environment to the
sdcard, so you can do:
set foo bar
saveenv
And from then on the u-boot env. variable foo will be set to var on boot,
until you do a saveenv, the area of the sdcard reserved for the env contains
a non valid env and you get this warning. I usually try to stay away
from save env, as I want to test things with u-boot default env.
Ok, as long as this is not serious, I'll not worry about it.
Craig