Booting A10 Device on F20

[Robert Brown]

Hi
I have successfully installed and booted 
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-a10-1-sda.raw.xz from an SD card for a MK802ii 
using the select-board.sh script but it uses kernel 3.4.75 and so I 
don't get the modules I need for a DVB-T usb device.
If I install Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-20140407-sda.raw.xz which uses the 
3.11.10 kernel and has the required modules, it does not have the 
select-board script. The partitions  _/ and _/boot are not recognised 
and so the device boots from Nand not the SD card.
Is there a guide I can refer to for this installation?

Thanks

[Peter Robinson]

> I have successfully installed and booted
> Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-a10-1-sda.raw.xz from an SD card for a MK802ii using
> the select-board.sh script but it uses kernel 3.4.75 and so I don't get the
> modules I need for a DVB-T usb device.
> If I install Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-20140407-sda.raw.xz which uses the
> 3.11.10 kernel and has the required modules, it does not have the
> select-board script. The partitions  _/ and _/boot are not recognised and so
> the device boots from Nand not the SD card.
> Is there a guide I can refer to for this installation?

We don't support Allwinner devices on F-20 because the MMC driver
isn't upstream. The select-board script is part of the AllWinner remix
and that is stuck on the 3.4 kernel. We do support AllWinner on
rawhide/3.15 but we don't currently have a DT for booting the mk802ii
device.

Peter

[Robert Brown]

Thanks for clarifying the situation. Any guess at the time-frame for the 
DT in 3.15?
Regards
Rob
On 31/05/14 18:37, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > I have successfully installed and booted
> > Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-a10-1-sda.raw.xz from an SD card for a MK802ii using
> > the select-board.sh script but it uses kernel 3.4.75 and so I don't get the
> > modules I need for a DVB-T usb device.
> > If I install Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-20140407-sda.raw.xz which uses the
> > 3.11.10 kernel and has the required modules, it does not have the
> > select-board script. The partitions  _/ and _/boot are not recognised and so
> > the device boots from Nand not the SD card.
> > Is there a guide I can refer to for this installation?
>
> We don't support Allwinner devices on F-20 because the MMC driver
> isn't upstream. The select-board script is part of the AllWinner remix
> and that is stuck on the 3.4 kernel. We do support AllWinner on
> rawhide/3.15 but we don't currently have a DT for booting the mk802ii
> device.
>
> Peter

[Peter Robinson]

For that particular device? No idea, there's 100s of AllWinner
devices. It won't be in 3.15 as it's basically feature freeze, .16
looks to add one more a20 device. Ask upstream, we just follow that
really.

Peter

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Robert Brown  wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying the situation. Any guess at the time-frame for the DT
> in 3.15?
> Regards
> Rob
>
> On 31/05/14 18:37, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > I have successfully installed and booted
> > > Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-a10-1-sda.raw.xz from an SD card for a MK802ii
> > > using
> > > the select-board.sh script but it uses kernel 3.4.75 and so I don't get
> > > the
> > > modules I need for a DVB-T usb device.
> > > If I install Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-20140407-sda.raw.xz which uses the
> > > 3.11.10 kernel and has the required modules, it does not have the
> > > select-board script. The partitions  _/ and _/boot are not recognised and
> > > so
> > > the device boots from Nand not the SD card.
> > > Is there a guide I can refer to for this installation?
> >
> > We don't support Allwinner devices on F-20 because the MMC driver
> > isn't upstream. The select-board script is part of the AllWinner remix
> > and that is stuck on the 3.4 kernel. We do support AllWinner on
> > rawhide/3.15 but we don't currently have a DT for booting the mk802ii
> > device.
> >
> > Peter

[Robert Brown]

Forgive my ignorance of these things but how would I go about asking 
"upstream".

On 01/06/14 09:29, Peter Robinson wrote:
> For that particular device? No idea, there's 100s of AllWinner
> devices. It won't be in 3.15 as it's basically feature freeze, .16
> looks to add one more a20 device. Ask upstream, we just follow that
> really.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Robert Brown  wrote:
> > Thanks for clarifying the situation. Any guess at the time-frame for the DT
> > in 3.15?
> > Regards
> > Rob
> >
> > On 31/05/14 18:37, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > I have successfully installed and booted
> > > > Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-a10-1-sda.raw.xz from an SD card for a MK802ii
> > > > using
> > > > the select-board.sh script but it uses kernel 3.4.75 and so I don't get
> > > > the
> > > > modules I need for a DVB-T usb device.
> > > > If I install Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-20-20140407-sda.raw.xz which uses the
> > > > 3.11.10 kernel and has the required modules, it does not have the
> > > > select-board script. The partitions  _/ and _/boot are not recognised and
> > > > so
> > > > the device boots from Nand not the SD card.
> > > > Is there a guide I can refer to for this installation?
> > >
> > > We don't support Allwinner devices on F-20 because the MMC driver
> > > isn't upstream. The select-board script is part of the AllWinner remix
> > > and that is stuck on the 3.4 kernel. We do support AllWinner on
> > > rawhide/3.15 but we don't currently have a DT for booting the mk802ii
> > > device.
> > >
> > > Peter