[Buildroot] [Bug 8191] New: Request update support for the cubieboard series

[Buildroot] [Bug 8191] New: Request update support for the cubieboard series

[bugzilla at busybox.net]

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8191

           Summary: Request update support for the cubieboard series
           Product: buildroot
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
        ReportedBy: fancp2007 at gmail.com
                CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


Created attachment 6086
  --> https://bugs.busybox.net/attachment.cgi?id=6086
Patch for the latest cb1/2/3 support

The official Buildroot support for cubieboard1 and cubieboard2 is very
outdated.

The 'legacy' sunxi branch of U-Boot is unmaintained now, see
[http://linux-sunxi.org/U-Boot].

The current U-Boot release (v2015.04) fully supports major functions (except
NAND) on all the older Allwinner SoCs (A10/A10s/A13/A20/A23/A31/A31s).
see [http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-Boot]

Linux kernel for the sunxi series (linux-sunxi) also need bump to the latest
stage/sunxi-3.4 branch to match the latest U-Boot.

The third generation of the famous Cubieboard, named Cubietruck, had released
at October 2013, but lacking the official buildroot support yet.
see [http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietech_Cubietruck]

Attached patch provide the latest update support for cubieboard1 and
cubieboard2, also new defconfig for cubietruck.

You can also get this patch from the next url:
https://github.com/vancepym/buildroot/commit/61317cfc4cde93e1795634c0a85c6357e9948fe7.patch

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[Buildroot] [Bug 8191] Request update support for the cubieboard series

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8191

Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> 2015-07-07 15:51:40 UTC ---
Thanks for this contribution. Could you however follow the Buildroot process to
submit patches, by sending them to the mailing list? See
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#submitting-patches.

Also, in your patch, I think you should make the kernel configurations a bit
more minimal. Enabling these hundreds of drivers as modules is not very useful.
Or better, use a defconfig available in the kernel tree, if any, so that the
kernel configuration file can be removed from the Buildroot tree.

I'll mark the bug as WONTFIX because it's not really a bug per-se, but we're
definitely waiting for your patch on the mailing list to improve the Cubieboard
support!

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