Re: Any opinions on ODROID-XU ?

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On 06/10/13 10:06, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you can stand a very slow web site:

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G137510300620

There is apparently an unofficial Fedora 19 image which boots
(http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=2366).  I've no idea
if/where they are making source available, or even if it needs patches.

The hardware is interesting:

  - Cortex A15, hence at least the potential of virtualization support.
    It's not clear if there are any firmware roadblocks to this
    actually working.

  - 8 core big.LITTLE (ie. 4 x A15 + 4 x A7).  Is there any support for
    this upstream yet?  I read an article in LWN indicating it was
    rather complicated to support properly.

  - A bit low on RAM (2 GB).

  - A fan(!)

Any opinions on this one?
I would like to support the various ODROID (and I think there's over a
dozen of them) but at the moment we don't support any of the Exynos
platforms well at the moment and upstream they still haven't managed
to land even the basic Multi Platforms support for that kernel which
pretty much kills us dead to support it well. I believe Linaro have
the action item to land to MP support and I've been told since around
3.7 that it'll be "next cycle" but it never seems to make it. Once MP
support lands we'll start to look at it closer.

Peter
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I raised the question with the hardkernel kernel maintainer support some time ago about having ODROID supported in the upstream kernel so that it can keep pace with kernel development.

The answer was that it never will, citing max98090 HDMI sound and Mali400 as 2 reasons.

I tried the odroid-3.11-rc3 branch only to find out it was the upstream kernel so may be these are just placeholders for future porting to ODROID.

What I do is to clone a repository and check if there is a odroidx_defconfig. I checked the 3.11-rc7 branch, there is no odroidx_defconfig and it's not documented anywhere what will run.

The other branches, e.g 3.11-rc3 is no longer there.

The latest kernel I built and am running is 3.8.13.10.
root@odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# uname -r
3.8.13.10
root@odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
        url = git://github.com/hardkernel/linux.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "odroid-3.8.y"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/odroid-3.8.y
root@odroid:/usr/src/linux-3.8.13.10# git branch -a
* odroid-3.8.y
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/odroid-3.0.y
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.0.y
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.10.y
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc3
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc4
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.11-rc7
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.4.y
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.5.y
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.8.y
  remotes/origin/odroid-3.8.y-rt
  remotes/origin/odroid-next
  remotes/origin/odroidx-3.6.y
  remotes/origin/odroidxu-3.4.y

Regards
Sid.

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