Re: A10s-OlinuXino-MICRO with Rawhide

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Thanks!

Craig

On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 09:33 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/07/2015 12:32 AM, Craig Lanning wrote:
> > Does Rawhide have any code to deal with the LDC panel for Olimex boards
> > (Allwinner A10s CPU)?
> > 
> > I thought I saw somewhere that it has some early support for the LCD
> > panel.
> > 
> > I downloaded the Xfce rawhide image (in hopes that it would use the
> > LCD), wrote it to an SD card, installed the uboot image, and booted it.
> > 
> > It started running through its boot messages on the console.  Asked me
> > the Setup questions.  Finally it continued to a login prompt on the
> > console.  I logged in and can use the console.  I looked through the
> > output from "dmesg" but didn't see anything about the LCD.
> > 
> > I have a 7 inch LCD (800x480) and an HDMI port that I could hook to an
> > HD monitor (1920x1080).  I am glad that even though I used a "graphical"
> > image, when it didn't find a display device, it used the console.
> > 
> > Was I mistaken about it doing anything with the LCD panel, or is there
> > some additional configuration that I need to do for it to work?
> > 
> > If it doesn't support the LCD, does it support the HDMI port?
> 
> Rawhide as of today supports the hdmi port with 1024x768, once
> rawhide gets u-boot v2015.04-rc1 it will also support EDID and use
> your monitors native resolution.
> 
> The LCD will work, but you need to build your own u-boot:
> 
> dnf install gcc-arm-linux-gnu
> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi.git
> cd u-boot-sunxi
> git checkout -B sunxi-wip origin/sunxi-wip
> 
> Then edit configs/A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig and configs/A13-OLinuXino_defconfig
> in the latter you will find a number of CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_... lines in there,
> copy those over to the configs/A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig file.
> 
> Then replace CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_POWER="AXP0-0" with
> CONFIG_VIDEO_LCD_POWER="PB9"
> 
> And then do the following to build / install:
> 
> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- A10s-OLinuXino-M_defconfig
> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu-
> sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8
> 
> You will also need an updated dtb, I've attached it for you, simply
> drop the .dtb file into the dtb-3.... dir on the boot partition.
> 
> After this u-boot should light up the lcd showin the u-boot tux
> on gray waterdrop background and some boot messages, and the kernel
> should take over the lcd framebuffer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 


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