I have been kind of active on F21 testing on my Cubieboards, and have
learned a number of unsettling facts. Basically, for the Allwinner SOC,
uboot is missing a lot and it probably will not be until spring that key
components will work. Most noteably video!
Now I am running Redsleeve successfully on my Cubieboards, and to do
that I used the uboot from the Fedora 19 remix which uses the old
Allwinner 'special' SunXi 3.4 kernel which has video support, but lacks
things like support for …
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http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort for uboot status.
There is a flurry of updates on the uboot list, the target for a major
code freeze for upstream is in October, but I don't recognize many
Allwinner updates (lots of Freescale posts). But on the Fedora-arm list
it was made clear that F21 will be lacking a lot of functionality for
Allwinner boards; good enough for servers, but not workstations. And it
will be F22 to target what was not included.
I am seriously considering alternative boards like the Wandboard, but it
costs more, and my CFO (wife) was really complaining about how much
money I recently spent on hardware (even with a 15 month ROI). So for
now I am staying with the Cubies.
So on to any possible testing. Karanbir stated in an earlier post to
use a F19 build as the basis for a Centos7 build. That would mean the
older Sunxi 3.4; which works. But no updates. Not the newer 3.16.
To see what I did for RSEL see:
http://cdn.opensxce.org/redsleeve/el6/cubieboard2/
I have to update the README with some caveats I have learned while
working with RSEL (like selinux not working, and you have to install
cronie as it is not part of the minimal image).
I am interested in contributing, but... Travel and Holidays over the
next month. And most of my Cubies are now in production.
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