Wednesday, May 10, 2017

[fedora-arm] Re: Banana PI R2 support

Peter,

Thanks for the in depth response.

On 05/10/2017 10:55 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> Has any work been done for the BPI-R2? I saw a note that the 4.11 kernel
>> supports it.
> It's based on a MediaTek MT7623N SoC, I don't know where you got
> information about it being supported in 4.11 as I don't see any dts
> files except the eval board for the SoC.

I looked at the information again. It is R1 support, not R2. Bad
reading on my part.

>
>> Before I buy one (I want to work with the LAN multiport), I wish to know if
>> I stand a chance getting at least F26 beta working on it.
> Buy something else, I don't think we'll support it any time soon,
> certainly not in F-26.

Anything else out there with a multLAN? Other than the R1 which I hear
has weak performance.

>
>> In /usr/share/uboot, I am only seeing a Bananapi uboot, not one for each of
>> the BPi boards. But in
>>
>> /boot/dtb-4.11.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc26.armv7hl/b*
> Device trees start with the SoC manufacturer so not B in this case.

Ah.
>
>> Also, since it has sata, can it boot off the sata like the Cubieboards (put
>> no partitions and only uboot on mSD).
> No idea, I've not seen any sort of MediaTek support in upstream u-boot.

And though I am subscribed to the uboot list, I see you active on it, so
you would know...

thanks
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