Re: [opensuse-arm] Kernel for Gooseberry (Allwinner)

On 24/08/12 08:44, Bamvor Jian Zhang wrote:

hi, ciaran Hi Bamvor

i have tried opensuse on allwinner a10(mele a1000) and put current staus to suse hackweek8 forum. i got xfce ruuning on my a1000 with the kernel and x11 driver compiled by myself. u can got all the allwinner a10 material from http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/, including u-boot, kernel and tools from github.

bamvor

That certainly sounds interesting. Up to now I've only soldered a UART connection and looked at what happens on boot. I tried using various images from http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page (going on the assumption that the Gooseberry is, in fact the LY-F1 A721 (http://linux-sunxi.org/Gooseberry). U-Boot manages to start the kernel from the SD-Card but it quickly panics or goes into a crazy reboot loop. I'm documenting my attempts here: http://is.gd/jw4uWV (Google Docs) From your Hackweek project page I could only discern that you have got something working. Which image did you use - or did you compile your own kernel? Which rootfs? If possible, I'd like to document it somewhere (the wiki is probably the right place). Ciaran

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Ciaran Farrell wrote: Looks like somebody got Ubuntu working on the Gooseberry. Details and an apparently working image are here: https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/2/topics/82

I'm currently downloading the image. The kernel is available here: http://dl.miniand.com/toby_corkindale/kernel_3.0.36_hf.tar.gz

So I guess I could try to use an openSUSE rootfs with that for starters.

Ciaran

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