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Hello, On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 21:17:58 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > 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: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> > > --- > Notes: > - when support finally lands in upstream and there is a release, > I'll update this defconfig as well; > - this defconfig should also work for the Nanopi NEO AIR, which > carries a WiFi+BT chip in lieue of an ethernet connector plus 8GiB > of eMMC; totally untested by lack of the board so far, to come > soonish I hope. > --- > board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd | 8 ++++++++ > board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ > board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ > board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 6 files changed, 154 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd > create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg > create mode 100755 board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh > create mode 100755 board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh > create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt > create mode 100644 configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig Applied to master, thanks. Thomas
Hi, On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:17:58PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > 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. I'm not sure why you need that custom tree, the DT is in 4.9 already. Maxime
Maxime, All, On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:17:58PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > 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. > > I'm not sure why you need that custom tree, the DT is in 4.9 already. Yup. But with 4.9-rc3, I had mmc corruption. With your tree and sunxi-next, I don't have those. Not sure what hapenned... I can re-check to be sure. Regards, Yann E. MORIN.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:09:57PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Maxime, All, > > On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:17:58PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I'm not sure why you need that custom tree, the DT is in 4.9 already. > > Yup. But with 4.9-rc3, I had mmc corruption. With your tree and > sunxi-next, I don't have those. Not sure what hapenned... > > I can re-check to be sure. I don't think we have any fix in there for the H3 and the MMC. If something is missing in 4.9, then it should be reported :) Maxime
Maxime, All, On 2016-11-03 22:49 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:09:57PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Maxime, All, > > > > On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly: > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:17:58PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > I'm not sure why you need that custom tree, the DT is in 4.9 already. > > > > Yup. But with 4.9-rc3, I had mmc corruption. With your tree and > > sunxi-next, I don't have those. Not sure what hapenned... > > > > I can re-check to be sure. > > I don't think we have any fix in there for the H3 and the MMC. If > something is missing in 4.9, then it should be reported :) So, I re-tried with 4.9-rc3, and it does indeed work correctly now. Probably me borking my setup previously. I'll send an update to that defconfig to use plain 4.9-rc3. Thanks for the feedback! :-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN.
diff --git a/board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd b/board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7874057 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +setenv fdt_high ffffffff + +setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 earlyprintk root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait + +fatload mmc 0 $kernel_addr_r zImage +fatload mmc 0 $fdt_addr_r sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb + +bootz $kernel_addr_r - $fdt_addr_r diff --git a/board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg b/board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad43d31 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +image boot.vfat { + vfat { + files = { + "zImage", + "sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb", + "boot.scr" + } + } + size = 10M +} + +image sdcard.img { + hdimage { + } + + partition u-boot { + in-partition-table = "no" + image = "u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin" + offset = 8192 + size = 1040384 # 1MB - 8192 + } + + partition boot { + partition-type = 0xC + bootable = "true" + image = "boot.vfat" + } + + partition rootfs { + partition-type = 0x83 + image = "rootfs.ext4" + size = 32M + } +} diff --git a/board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh b/board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..e6791e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# post-build.sh for Nanopi NEO, based on the Orange Pi PC +# 2013, Carlo Caione <carlo.caione@gmail.com> +# 2016, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> + +BOARD_DIR="$( dirname "${0}" )" +MKIMAGE="${HOST_DIR}/usr/bin/mkimage" +BOOT_CMD="${BOARD_DIR}/boot.cmd" +BOOT_CMD_H="${BINARIES_DIR}/boot.scr" + +# U-Boot script +"${MKIMAGE}" -C none -A arm -T script -d "${BOOT_CMD}" "${BOOT_CMD_H}" diff --git a/board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh b/board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..740386e --- /dev/null +++ b/board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# post-image.sh for Nanopi NEO, based on the Orange Pi PC + +BOARD_DIR="$( dirname "${0}" )" +GENIMAGE_CFG="${BOARD_DIR}/genimage.cfg" +GENIMAGE_TMP="${BUILD_DIR}/genimage.tmp" + +rm -rf "${GENIMAGE_TMP}" + +genimage \ + --rootpath "${TARGET_DIR}" \ + --tmppath "${GENIMAGE_TMP}" \ + --inputpath "${BINARIES_DIR}" \ + --outputpath "${BINARIES_DIR}" \ + --config "${GENIMAGE_CFG}" diff --git a/board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt b/board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95fc628 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Intro +===== + +The instructions herein are valid for the FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO, +both the 256MiB and 512MiB versions. They should also work the the +NanoPi NEO Air, but this is untested so far. + +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 ethernet 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. + +Unfortunately, support for the ethernet MAC and the USB OTG are not +yet upstream, but are being actively worked on. + + +How to build +============ + + $ make nanopi_neo_defconfig + $ make + +Note: you will need access to the internet to download the required +sources. + +You will then obtain an image ready to be written to your micro SDcard: + + $ dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M + +Notes: + - replace 'sdX' with the actual device with your micro SDcard, + - you may need to be root to do that (use 'sudo'). + +Insert the micro SDcard in your NanoPi NEO and power it up. The console +is on the serial line, 115200 8N1. diff --git a/configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig b/configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f4ea37 --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +BR2_arm=y +BR2_cortex_a7=y +BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV4=y + +# Cannot use same headers as the kernel, because kernel is 4.9 +# and we only know 4.8 at best so far +BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_4_8=y + +BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="nanopi-neo" +BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE="Welcome to Buildroot for the NanoPi NEO" +BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh" +BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh" + +# Use a special kernel tree until all support finally lands upstream +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="https://github.com/yann-morin-1998/linux" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="4.9-rc3-sunxi-next-2016-11-02" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="sunxi" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo" + +# Use an -rc tag because the defconfig is very recent +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2016.11-rc3" +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="nanopi_neo" +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_CUSTOM=y +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_CUSTOM_NAME="u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin" + +# Build an sdcard image +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS=32768 +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_INODES=8192 +# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set +BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_DOSFSTOOLS=y +BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GENIMAGE=y +BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_MTOOLS=y +BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_UBOOT_TOOLS=y
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: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> --- Notes: - when support finally lands in upstream and there is a release, I'll update this defconfig as well; - this defconfig should also work for the Nanopi NEO AIR, which carries a WiFi+BT chip in lieue of an ethernet connector plus 8GiB of eMMC; totally untested by lack of the board so far, to come soonish I hope. --- board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd | 8 ++++++++ board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 154 insertions(+) create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg create mode 100755 board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh create mode 100755 board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh create mode 100644 board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt create mode 100644 configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig