Draft: radxa-zero: new device

radxa-zero booting mainline. usb-network doesnt seem to be working, but usb works, wifi works with firmware extracted from armbian, display works, but gnome seems to crash immediately.

currently booting with u-boot from armbian flashed to mmcblk1boot0. tow-boot supports the zero2, so maybe a port to the zero can come soon?

also i tried using just linux-edge and it wouldnt boot, so linux-radxa-zero is just mainline with a config that boots. should i rename it to something more generic?

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By tvall on 2022-02-18T09:04:05

also i tried using just linux-edge and it wouldnt boot, so linux-radxa-zero is just mainline with a config that boots

Could it be feasible to change Alpine's config to let this device boot with it, too?

By Newbyte on 2022-02-18T19:44:53

how hard would it be to get alpine to make changes to their config? i'd prefer to not needlessly maintain a kernel, so that sounds like a better option.

By tvall on 2022-02-18T19:44:53

Start by figuring out what options need to be changed, then open an issue about it in the aports repo and ping the maintainer of the kernel where you want to add them. Depending on what the options are it could be anything from very easy to virtually impossible.

By Newbyte on 2022-02-18T19:46:42

i successfully built and flashed tow-boot for my zero yesterday. tomorrow i'll add instructions to the wiki and work on slimming the kernel down to something reasonable.

By tvall on 2022-05-16T06:27:27

Hey Yo Any update on this ? I am also working on getting pm os on few amlogic sbc btw.

Also i am getting alpine change their's linux config to let this device and few amlogic based sbc boot with it.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/14357

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-20T13:42:22

If you can get those options enabled in Alpine and test that it works, we could merge this.

By Newbyte on 2022-11-20T17:31:08

ok I will test it on my amlogic sbc once those options enabled in Alpine but which kernal this device will use the mainline or tvall's kernal when this mr merged?

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-21T16:43:11

I won't merge this until the relevant options have been enabled upstream in Alpine and the device has been changed to using alpine-edge as kernel. That is, provided Alpine doesn't object enabling the necessary options to have this device working.

By Newbyte on 2022-11-22T09:25:02

ok maybe i will another mr for getting radex zero using linux-edge when linux-edge has enabled driver for amlogic soc.

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-26T16:44:03

Update : the kernel maintainer forgot to enable the option when they updated the kernel.

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-26T16:46:59

Update : the kernel maintainer forgot to enable the option when they updated the kernel.

Yeah, usually you have to ask him more than once. I suggest you ping him in the issue and let him know of the option(s) he forgot.

By Newbyte on 2022-11-26T17:59:08

XD

@Newbyte u seem to have a account on alpine gitlab so u can help me ping him btw.

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-27T04:24:51

I don't know what options he missed, so I can't do that. Just write a new comment in the issue explaining what he missed and tag him.

By Newbyte on 2022-11-27T08:17:37

Ok

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-11-27T11:31:08

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah , they has enable the driver in kernal config.

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-12-03T18:41:27

pushed without kernel and added depend on linux edge. heading to work so i won't be able to test for at least 9 hours.

By tvall on 2022-12-03T18:39:21

well the edge kernel boots to debug shell fine, but doesnt see the emmc at all. and i can't seem to find what im missing.

By tvall on 2022-12-05T02:50:29

Can you mount the boot and root partitions?

By Newbyte on 2022-12-05T07:34:59

Hey the inittemfs dont include some kernal module that is necessary for loading the emmc by default and that kernal module aint build in to the kernal . You can make the initenfs include some kernal module that is necessary for loading the emmc by puting deviceinfo_modules_initfs=kernal_module_u_neeedin /etc/deviceinfo and regenerate the inittemfs .

Also one of my amlogic sbc has dead and sorry for late reply.

EDIT : i has also faced the issue before that sbc has dead.

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-12-16T14:57:05

@tvall @Newbyte

Good News I manage to get linux-edge booting on radxa zero

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2023-02-11T10:40:59

i made a new mr for this (!3865 (merged))

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By tvall on 2022-02-25T20:20:52

so linux-radxa-zero is just mainline with a config that boots. should i rename it to something more generic?

if you can reduce defconfig to single soc/platform support only and make it smaller so that gitlab CI can build it in less than 3h, then maybe..

By Alexey Min on 2022-03-04T04:32:42

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Sorry to bother you @tvall,

but we've detected that this merge request hasn't seen any recent activity. If you need help or want to discuss your approach with developers you can ping @postmarketOS. You can also ask on matrix in #devel:postmarketos.org or #postmarketos-devel on OFTC. If no further activity occurs in this MR, postmarketOS developers may close it in the future.

Thanks for your contribution.

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Sorry to bother you @tvall,

but we've detected that this merge request hasn't seen any recent activity. If you need help or want to discuss your approach with developers you can ping @postmarketOS. You can also ask on matrix in #devel:postmarketos.org or #postmarketos-devel on OFTC. If no further activity occurs in this MR, postmarketOS developers may close it in the future.

Thanks for your contribution.

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By tvall on 2022-12-03T18:36:47

in order to make it boot , pls change /vmlinuz to /vmlinuz-edge

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-12-04T03:13:23

pls also change /dtbs /dtbs-edge

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2022-12-04T05:04:51

mentioned in merge request !3833 (merged)

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2023-02-04T19:24:19

mentioned in merge request !3865 (merged)

By ΞЖKƆ/QVH on 2023-02-12T18:44:44

closed