boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
PATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
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.
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! :-)
---
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_defconfigboard/nanopi-neo/boot.cmd new file +8 -0
@@ -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 - $fdt_addr_r
board/nanopi-neo/genimage.cfg new file +34 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +image boot.vfat { + vfat { + files = { + "zImage", + "sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb", + "boot.scr" + } + } + size = 10M +} + +image sdcard.img { + hdimage { + } + + partition u-boot { + in-partition-table = "no" + image = "u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin" + offset = 8192 + size = 1040384 # 1MB - 8192 + } + + partition boot { + partition-type = 0xC + bootable = "true" + image = "boot.vfat" + } + + partition rootfs { + partition-type = 0x83 + image = "rootfs.ext4" + size = 32M + } +}
board/nanopi-neo/post-build.sh new file +12 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# post-build.sh for Nanopi NEO, based on the Orange Pi PC +# 2013, Carlo Caione <[email protected]> +# 2016, "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]> + +BOARD_DIR="$( 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}" "${BOOT_CMD_H}"
board/nanopi-neo/post-image.sh new file +15 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# post-image.sh for Nanopi NEO, based on the Orange Pi PC + +BOARD_DIR="$( 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}"
board/nanopi-neo/readme.txt new file +43 -0
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configs/nanopi_neo_defconfig new file +42 -0
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Thomas Petazzoni
AppliedPATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
Hello,
Quoted 47 lines · Yann E. MORIN
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.
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" <[email protected]>Cc Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>---
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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
PATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
In reply to Yann E. MORINHi,
Quoted 11 lines · Yann E. MORIN
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.
Maxime
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PATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
Maxime, All,
On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly:
Quoted 10 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Quoted 9 lines
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...
Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines
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.
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PATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
Quoted 16 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Maxime, All,
On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly:
Quoted 13 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Quoted 11 lines
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.
Quoted 6 lines
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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
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PATCH 1/1 boards: add FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO
Maxime, All,
On 2016-11-03 22:49 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly:
Quoted 19 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Quoted 18 lines
Maxime, All,
On 2016-11-03 22:02 +0100, Maxime Ripard spake thusly:
Quoted 14 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Quoted 11 lines
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.
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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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