[Buildroot] [PATCH] boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

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 4x4cm? 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.

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