Add support for Olinuxino A10 Lime about meta-sunxi HOT 13 CLOSED

@peolsson

Could you elaborate a bit on the steps you took "to hack it in" - preferably showing your code, as well as on the problems you encountered?

What error did you get when you tried to boot it? Note that I just created an issue that sound like it might be related, see #46

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@KristofRobot

I'm waiting for a USB/Serial debug cable to arrive today, so I don't have any debug info available yet. I will return with more info here as soon as I know more. Though it seems your problem was something else - I'm not missing any files as far as I can see, but it just refuses to bootup properly.

If you're interested I can submit a patch for the changes I made to add support for OLinuxino A10 Lime - it might be a good start to get it fixed.

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@peolsson

Yes, good idea to show the exact changes you applied.

If things compile correctly, I wont be of much help, as I dont own an OLinuxino A10 Lime (or any other A10-based board) - but others here might spot some issues.

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Ok, here is my current patch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B67nFAAeJWiEUGZPa0tFUnUxUEE/edit?usp=sharing

I'm still waiting for my debug cable, so I have no more info at this moment.

/Peter

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Please use github and do a pull-request to propose a patch, that's way better and easier for us to review.
Thanks

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I will as soon as I get things working, this was just a work-in-progress update, to show my current changes.

Thanks,

Peter

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Today I finally got the UART/USB cable. And what I found out what that it actually was booting (when using the supplied patch), but HDMI output was not enabled. I relealized that it's not enabled for core-image-minimal. So now I'm bitbaking another image, and we'll see how far that takes me. I'll report back here when I know more.

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I think that selecting the screen output is done by setting the correct value in the script.bin file for A10 cpu.
As stated here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Display#script.bin.2Ffex_file

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Thanks for the response. However, the fex file is already configured correctly (as far as I can see), so it seems there is something else to it...

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Ok.
The other thing to check is whether you have those options enabled in the kernel config file:
CONFIG_FB_SUNXI=y
CONFIG_FB_SUNXI_LCD=y
CONFIG_FB_SUNXI_HDMI=y

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Thanks, that did it! I will report back here with a pull request as soon as I put things together here.

/Peter

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I've created a pull request - it's the first time, so tell me if I did anything wrong :)

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merged #49

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