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    • Yann E. MORIN's avatar
      boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO · 1bcdddf7
      Yann E. MORIN authored 
      

The FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO is a 4x4cm² board with an Allwiner H3 SoC:
  - quad-core Cortex-A7 @1.2GHz
  - 256 or 512MiB of DDR
  - uSDCard as only storage option
  - 3x USB 2.0 host (one socket, two on expansion pin-holes)
  - 1x USB 2.0 OTG (also used as power source)
  - 10/100 etehrnet MAC
  - GPIOs, SPI, I2c...

Support for the Nanopi NEO in U-Boot and Linux is very recent, so much
so that we have to use an -rc tag for U-Boot and a special Linux tree.

As for Linux, I pushed a git tree on Github with a single tag that
matches what is currently queued in the sunxi-next queued for 4.10,
based on 4.9-rc3. All those commits are from Maxime's tree, the
maintainer for most sunxi stuff.

This also means that we can't use the Linux headers from the kernel
being built (which is what we usually do) because those report 4.9,
while Buildroot currently knows only of 4.8 at best. So this is what we
use.

Unfortunately, support for the ethernet MAC and the USB OTG are not yet
upstream, but are being actively worked on.

The Nanopi NEO is very similar to the Orangepi PC, so I was able to
scanvenge most of its configuration. ;-)

Thanks Maxime for your help on IRC! :-)

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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  5. 13 Apr, 2016 2 commits
  7. 17 Feb, 2016 1 commit
  9. 29 Dec, 2015 1 commit
    • Erico Nunes's avatar
      configs: update cubieboard2 defconfig · 53c1dadb
      Erico Nunes authored 
      

This patch updates the Cubieboard2 board defconfig to use newer u-boot
and linux versions, along with a few other improvements.
The other improvements were mostly backported from the recent Orange Pi
defconfig inclusion and are related to image generation.
linux-sunxi.org was used as a reference for both linux and u-boot
defconfig names.

In detail:
- Update linux to vanilla upstream -- currently 4.3.3 is the most
up-to-date. Although it lacks some features present only in the
linux-sunxi 3.4 branch, upstream support appears to be relatively mature
and is already being deployed by default by distributions such as Arch
Linux ARM.
- Update u-boot to vanilla upstream 2015.10. According to
linux-sunxi.org, upstream fully supports major functions (except NAND)
since 2015.07.
- Change image format to zImage and drop custom image generation script
in favour of genimage, as pointed out by reviewers in the Orange Pi
defconfig submission.

This was tested in a Cubieboard2 board with boot from mmc and it boots
fine to login prompt.

This has not been tested in a Cubieboard (A10) as I don't own any; the
version bumps probably apply to it although there are some differences
(lack of VFPv4 support, Cortex-A8 instead of Cortex-A7), so I have kept
the current Cubieboard defconfig and its scripts. This one has been only
build-tested.

Signed-off-by: default avatarErico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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  11. 28 Dec, 2015 1 commit