Enabling sun8i support in the Fedora kernels

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 10:05:12 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 21-01-15 11:02, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> I noticed that sun8i support is not enabled in the rawhide arm kernels,
>> sun8i / A23 is supported by upstream u-boot now, so it would be good
>> to also enable it in the Fedora kernels, then Fedora should just work
>> on A23 based devices.
>
> I've already got this on my todo list but was mostly awaiting it to
> make it to useful functionality to land rather than just enabling it
> for the sake of it.

Well it is mostly useful now, it can fully boot Fedora from a sdcard
on a serial console, and it can do video output on a lcd screen through
simplefb.

Regards,

Hans


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