On 08/26/2018 05:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 08/26/2018 06:05 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 08/22/2018 04:38 PM, Iván Chavero wrote:
El lun, 20-08-2018 a las 16:06 -0300, Pablo Sebastián Greco escribió:
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Iván, I didn't have time today to build 4.18 today, but I pushed 4.17.17, and it should appear here https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/ between today and tomorrow. It has smp for a83t (bananapi-m3 and cubieborard5) Your hdmi patch for cubieboard5. Some other fixes for R40.
It would be great if you could test it.
I will and report on this thread, thanks!
OK Guys,
I bought a Cubieboard5 a very long time ago to test on CentOS-7. Years later, it finally works :).
I worked with Pablo to test his 4.17.17 kernel, using this thread, specifically this post:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2018-August/003399.html
I am happy to say that I now have it working now.
My only real issues were:
- The '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-link.sh' needing to be
deleted and a permanent MACADDR added.
I have not deleted my ifcfg-link script (mine does not have the .sh extension?) I just made the eth0
no '.sh' , that is the hazard of doing things from memory at 5am and not looking in the actual directory :)
I deleted my file after deleting the connection .. no need for spare / extra files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ to confuse me later.
But then I have cubie 2 and 3 (truck).
This post by Robert used to Delete the ifcfg-link.sh and I created a static IP with a MACADDR:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2018-August/003366.html
(don't forget to edit ifcfg-eth0.sh and change HWADDR= to MACADDR=)
Per the Network Manager list:
nmcli con mod $ifname ethernet.cloned-mac-address "$your_mac"
We did have an interesting discussion on the historical origin of these names and why they will remain as they are.
- I am getting a usb bus hang .. it normally takes about 5 minutes for
the bus to reset, then everything seems to be OK.
After setting everything up, I did try using the latest Fedora 29 Cubieboard5 u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin. That one did not fix either the MACADDR issue or the usb bus hang.
Are you running on a sata drive with only uboot on the uSD card? I would like to know how sata performance is. Does it even boot (given your usb hang issue) from sata? I remember way back Hans working on getting usb sata (in general) boot working for Allwinner, but I never tested the later uboot versions.
I am currently using just the uSD card on the cubietruck_plus .. I do have a 5400 2.5" sata on a cubieboard3 .. but I boot from uSD on there too .. and just mount in the sata drive for /home
But, I am not doing anything important on these test cards (I have a cubieboard3, cubieboad5, Raspberry Pi 2B, and Raspberry Pi 3B).
I basically only use these to test the new install images when we do point released and to run the t_functional suite (Prior to pushing updates):
https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-t_functional
I also have an armhfp VM running on an aarch64 local machine using Fabian's guide:
https://www.arrfab.net/posts/2017/Sep/29/using-centos-7-armhfp-vm-on-centos-...
We are working on getting a couple armhfp VMs into our CI system so that I can do my normal Pre-Updates testing:
https://ci.centos.org/view/CentOS-Core/
Until we get some VMs rolled into the CI system, I run those preupdates tests locally.
So I can't really answer your question about the sata performance .. but I might consider buying a ssd and seeing what I can do with that at some point soon.
Can we not use the NAND/TSOP to boot / run on the cubieboards?
I have never tried this, as I really only use these to demo stuff at conferences or test the images and having them on a replaceable uSD card is very convenient and I don't have any performance needs.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes