On Seg, 2014-03-03 at 14:54 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Allwinner sunxi (A10 / A13 / A20) ARM SoC > support = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport > > Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Robinson > <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Allwinner A10 / A13 / A20 SoCs are used in a number of popular low cost arm > development boards and arm mini computers. Currently Fedora ARM is supported > on these devices through a Remix [1]. Allwinner kernel support is progressing > rapidly upstream, and with this upstream kernel support it should be possible > to support Allwinner SoCs in the official Fedora ARM images, without the need > for a remix. > > == Detailed description == > The linux-sunxi community is currently working hard to get Allwinner SoCs > supported in the upstream kernel. A big part of this should land in the 3.14 > kernel. The plan is to support Allwinner SoCs in headless mode for now, and > carry patches for mmc, ahci and usb support for 1-2 kernel releases (until > they land upstream). > > == Scope == > Supporting Allwinnner SoCs ootb will require kernel and u-boot support. Kernel > support is landing upstream and we will add patches to the Fedora kernel for > 1-2 kernel releases to supplement this. u-boot support currently lives in a u- > boot fork upstream, this fork is tracking / merging u-boot upstream and does > intent to get sunxi support merged into the official u-boot packages, but there > is no timeline for this atm. For u-boot we will create a separate u-boot-sunxi > package, which can be dropped once u-boot support has been merged into u-boot > upstream. > > Proposal owners: Will try to get as much kernel support upstream as possible, > supplement with patches in the Fedora kernel package. Will create a u-boot- > sunxi package with sunxi specific u-boot. Will look into adding a config tool to > the sdcard images to easily select and install the correct u-boot and dtb, > like the Allwinner Remix images have. > > Other developers: N/A > Release engineering: N/A > Policies and guidelines: N/A > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport I have one tablet , I see now that seems to be CORTEX A9 Dual Core , also an popular low cost arm, but supposed that is an Allwinner sunxi. I'd like to know , how I a boot there, if I can have dual boot to keep android flavor etc, where I can get this kind of documentation ? regarding install on it, Fedora arm . Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
