Olimex LIME A10 and kernel 3.4

[David Raison]

I downloaded and booted successfully from the Debian Jessie image available on http://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-a10/ for the LIME.

 

Now I'd like to install an image to NAND, but there's currently no 3.4 kernel version available for the A10. (I've also checked the mirror).

I was wondering (before breaking my neck trying to build it) whether this was simply due to no image having been built yet, or due to some circumstances making it impossible to run a 3.4 on the LIME A10?

 

Thanks

[Igor]

There is no image because kernel 3.4.x refuse to work on this board with "theoretically correct" settings ... I don't have any A10 around to debug.

[David Raison]

OK, that's interesting, since – and I suspect that's not really news to you – Olimex themselves managed to get kernel 3.4.x running on the board. 

E.g. 

 

• https://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/building-debian-linux-image-for-a10-olinuxino-lime-with-kernel-3-4-67/
• https://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/a10-olinuxino-lime-debian-build-with-kernel-3-4-90/

 

In the second post, they mention that the revision of sunxi they used was 44b53fd3928f:

 

Note that the A10-OLinuXino-Lime board u-boot is tested with the next branch:

# git rev-parse --verify HEAD
44b53fd3928f15c34993ec8c6b8c2efcb79769ee

 

 

It also has a working link to the defconfig they used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-bAEPML8fwlbzZSQUxoY0Nxa2c/edit 

 

I guess I'll try to build an image using their instructions, or a slimmed down version, then try to apply the steps in your nand-sata-install script, taking into consideration the modified SPL location on the A10 and A13.

[Igor]

Kernel 3.4.108 must work on A10 but I really haven't put much effort to understand what's wrong. Maybe we need just a proper configuration or my kernel source is patched too much and main linux-sunxi branch works out of the box.