Fedora on allwinner h616

[fs 3000]

Hello guys,

I have a orange pi zero 2 board. With a h616 soc. I have tried dd'ing the .raw file in
to microsd card with the Fedora 35 image, even some centos ones. Nothing happens, it
doesn't boot. After dd'iong the main image file, i I even tried copying the u-boot
file like the centos wiki shows, same result, nothing.
dd if=/root/orangepi_zero2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=8
conv=fsync,notrunc

Is there a way to make fedora or even centos working on this board? That would be great.

Many thanks in advance for any pointers on this.

[Sally A.haj]

Hello there,

I am not sure what is the right way to install Fedora on your board, but 
usually in Fedora we use https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer

to write ARM images to disks, I can't find your board specifically, 
which means it hasn't been supported yet, but there are "orangepi_zero, 
orangepi_zero_plus, and orangepi_zero_plus2" options, which you can 
choose of as a current solution.

Regards,

Sally

On 4/27/22 01:00, fs 3000 wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have a orange pi zero 2 board. With a h616 soc. I have tried dd'ing the .raw
file in to microsd card with the Fedora 35 image, even some centos ones. Nothing happens,
it doesn't boot. After dd'iong the main image file, i I even tried copying the
u-boot file like the centos wiki shows, same result, nothing.
> dd if=/root/orangepi_zero2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=8
conv=fsync,notrunc
>
> Is there a way to make fedora or even centos working on this board? That would be
great.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any pointers on this.
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[fs3000]

Yes, i used arm-image-installer. I installed the uboot images which have an image for the
orange pi zero 2, created the symlink on boards.d to avoid the error and used the correct
target, orangepi-zero2 or something like that. No boot. I don't have the UART cable.
Will get one soon to check better what's going on.


------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, April 28th, 2022 at 05:29, Sally A.haj <sallyahaj(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:


> Hello there,
>
> I am not sure what is the right way to install Fedora on your board, but
> usually in Fedora we use https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer
>
> to write ARM images to disks, I can't find your board specifically,
> which means it hasn't been supported yet, but there are "orangepi_zero,
> orangepi_zero_plus, and orangepi_zero_plus2" options, which you can
> choose of as a current solution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sally
>
> On 4/27/22 01:00, fs 3000 wrote:
>
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > I have a orange pi zero 2 board. With a h616 soc. I have tried dd'ing the
.raw file in to microsd card with the Fedora 35 image, even some centos ones. Nothing
happens, it doesn't boot. After dd'iong the main image file, i I even tried
copying the u-boot file like the centos wiki shows, same result, nothing.
> > dd if=/root/orangepi_zero2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=8
conv=fsync,notrunc
> >
> > Is there a way to make fedora or even centos working on this board? That would
be great.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any pointers on this.
> > _______________________________________________
> > arm mailing list -- arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
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[Peter Robinson]

Hi,

>  I have a orange pi zero 2 board. With a h616 soc. I have tried
> dd'ing the .raw file in to microsd card with the Fedora 35 image, even some centos
> ones. Nothing happens, it doesn't boot. After dd'iong the main image file, i I
> even tried copying the u-boot file like the centos wiki shows, same result, nothing.
>  dd if=/root/orangepi_zero2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=8
> conv=fsync,notrunc
>
>  Is there a way to make fedora or even centos working on this board? That would be great.
My initial thoughts were "we build a U-Boot it should work" but when I
started to dig it needs more investigation.

The U-Boot support normally doesn't landed until the DT is upstream in
the kernel, but this has and the DT for H616 isn't upstream, which
means the core support isn't either. There's also something wrong with
our U-Boot build.

Did you manage to source a UART cable?

I'll get back to you on this one, it'll need a little more
investigation. I suspect we'll be able to support it in F-37.

P

[Peter Robinson]

>  > I have a orange pi zero 2 board. With a h616 soc. I have tried
> dd'ing the .raw file in to microsd card with the Fedora 35 image, even some centos
> ones. Nothing happens, it doesn't boot. After dd'iong the main image file, i I
> even tried copying the u-boot file like the centos wiki shows, same result, nothing.
>  > dd if=/root/orangepi_zero2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=8
> conv=fsync,notrunc
>  >
>  > Is there a way to make fedora or even centos working on this board? That would be
> great.
>
>  My initial thoughts were "we build a U-Boot it should work" but when I
>  started to dig it needs more investigation.
>
>  The U-Boot support normally doesn't landed until the DT is upstream in
>  the kernel, but this has and the DT for H616 isn't upstream, which
>  means the core support isn't either. There's also something wrong with
>  our U-Boot build.
>
>  Did you manage to source a UART cable?
>
>  I'll get back to you on this one, it'll need a little more
>  investigation. I suspect we'll be able to support it in F-37. 
So as a follow up to this, the support isn't yet upstream for the H616
SoC [1], although it's not far off I'm not sure it if will land for
the 5.19 kernel.

Short answer is we don't currently support it, ATM it's too early to
tell if we'll be able to support it for F-37, but I will fix up the
firmware builds before then so when support does land upstream it
should just begin to work.

P

[1]
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/2022042823093...

[fs 3000]

Thanks for your replies Peter. Unfortunately my board somehow got burnt... I would like to
have Fedora running on one of these tiny boards, but right now, i'm studying for other
stuff.

Please allow me to share my opinion. If there is something i have noticed, is that
documentation is seriously lacking. That doesn't help the community to grow. I was
pulling my hair the entire time when messing with the board and with a amlogic box. To me,
it looks like Fedora only supports raspberry pi. Other stuff if just not clear if it runs
or not.

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 1:30 PM fs 3000 <fs3000(a)proton.me&gt; wrote:
>  Thanks for your replies Peter. Unfortunately my board somehow got burnt... I would like
> to have Fedora running on one of these tiny boards, but right now, i'm studying for
> other stuff.
>
>  Please allow me to share my opinion. If there is something i have noticed, is that
> documentation is seriously lacking. That doesn't help the community to grow. I was
> pulling my hair the entire time when messing with the board and with a amlogic box. To me,
> it looks like Fedora only supports raspberry pi. Other stuff if just not clear if it runs
> or not. 
It's a community, people can contribute to this, most of work on this
in our spare time and we do our best.

It's almost impossible to document the 100s of devices that work on Fedora arm.

Do you have some suggestions how we can improve the docs for arm here
without having to document every SoC/board that works without having
vast amount of information that is out of date very quickly? Would
love some suggestions on what you find is missing from the docs site
here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/