[Arm-dev] Project status

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/03/2014 09:40 AM, Marcin Trendota wrote:
> Last entry - i successfully installed Fedora 21 on microSD card, put U-Boot on
> it (same way as for BananaPi and CubieTruck) and boot system (even modification
> in extlinux.conf wasn't necessary and still i have serial console available).
> As for now it works.

Welcome to the party.  I have been using that serial console append 
since the problem first came up.  They said  there would be a fix 
eventually; seems like they may have.  So next test I will leave it; 
worst case the test won't work because no console and I will have to 
rebuild the card image.

I have been exchanging emails with the Redhat uboot developer who is an 
Allwinner user (and has done much of the Allwinner work for uboot).  He 
has video working, but you have to build your own uboot.  I am working 
on this.  It also supposedly takes kernel => 3.19, and right now Rawhide 
(pre F22 beta) is only at 3.18.  I am waiting for him to get back to me 
on how to get a 3.19 kernel into a rawhide image for testing.

He said still no wifi, but he DOES have a sata multiplexer working:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-To-5-SATA-2-0-Port-Multiplier-Card-3Gbps-SATAII-Riser-card-/281383006276?pt=US_Internal_Port_Expansion_Cards&hash=item4183bbf044

Again, you need the newer uboot and kernel.

armv7 is very much a moving target.  The longer it takes us to get 
going, the more we may have working!

Of course, Gordon's approach is also valid.  Use the manufacture's buggy 
uboot and kernel and go with that.  Thing is, you are locked into that 
kernel and kernel updates will get very messy.