[fedora-arm] Any opinions on ODROID-XU ?

[Sid Boyce]

On 06/10/13 10:06, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> If you can stand a very slow web site:
>>
>> http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G137510300620
>>
>> There is apparently an unofficial Fedora 19 image which boots
>> (http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=2366).  I've no idea
>> if/where they are making source available, or even if it needs patches.
>>
>> The hardware is interesting:
>>
>>   - Cortex A15, hence at least the potential of virtualization support.
>>     It's not clear if there are any firmware roadblocks to this
>>     actually working.
>>
>>   - 8 core big.LITTLE (ie. 4 x A15 + 4 x A7).  Is there any support for
>>     this upstream yet?  I read an article in LWN indicating it was
>>     rather complicated to support properly.
>>
>>   - A bit low on RAM (2 GB).
>>
>>   - A fan(!)
>>
>> Any opinions on this one?
> I would like to support the various ODROID (and I think there's over a
> dozen of them) but at the moment we don't support any of the Exynos
> platforms well at the moment and upstream they still haven't managed
> to land even the basic Multi Platforms support for that kernel which
> pretty much kills us dead to support it well. I believe Linaro have
> the action item to land to MP support and I've been told since around
> 3.7 that it'll be "next cycle" but it never seems to make it. Once MP
> support lands we'll start to look at it closer.
>
> Peter
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I raised the question with the hardkernel kernel maintainer support some 
time ago about having ODROID supported in the upstream kernel so that it 
can keep pace with kernel development.

The answer was that it never will, citing max98090 HDMI sound and 
Mali400 as 2 reasons.

I tried the odroid-3.11-rc3 branch only to find out it was the upstream 
kernel so may be these are just placeholders for future porting to ODROID.

What I do is to clone a repository and check if there is a 
odroidx_defconfig.
I checked the 3.11-rc7 branch, there is no odroidx_defconfig and it's 
not documented anywhere what will run.

The other branches, e.g 3.11-rc3 is no longer there.

The latest kernel I built and am running is 3.8.13.10.
root at odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# uname -r
3.8.13.10
root at odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# cat .git/config
[core]
         repositoryformatversion = 0
         filemode = true
         bare = false
         logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
         url = git://github.com/hardkernel/linux.git
         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "odroid-3.8.y"]
         remote = origin
         merge = refs/heads/odroid-3.8.y
root at odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# git branch -a
* odroid-3.8.y
   remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/odroid-3.0.y
   remotes/origin/master
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.0.y
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.10.y
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc3
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc4
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc7
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.4.y
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.5.y
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.8.y
   remotes/origin/odroid-3.8.y-rt
   remotes/origin/odroid-next
   remotes/origin/odroidx-3.6.y
   remotes/origin/odroidxu-3.4.y

Regards
Sid.

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