Radxa Cubie A7A - Allwinner a733

[Nick A]

For those with a Radxa Cubie A7A, I made a custom Armbian Build using the BSP kernel. 

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/Radxa-a7a-v0.2

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/Radxa-A7A

 

Now supports automatic first boot configuration by default. No need for a usb serial device to boot into a desktop image. First boot takes awhile to load. If you are using a server image you need a usb serial device/ssh to interact with the console. There is no Framebuffer console support in the BSP kernel.

 

If you want to edit the automatic first boot configuration read the documentation.

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Autoconfig/

 

Username: radxa
password: radxa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12 by Nick A
Updated release to v0.2

[eli]

Thanks, is KVM supported?

[Nick A]

@eli It's compiled in the kernel 

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/Radxa-A7A/config/kernel/linux-sun60i-legacy.config#L1659-L1672

[eli]

😄

[Nick A]

Fixed the automatic first boot configuration on Bookwarm. Now you can boot the desktop image without a usb serial device.  

Edited November 12 by Nick A

[Shubham Singh]

Hey @Nick A, first of all, thanks for providing us with the build, I flashed and tried the image, But I could not see kvm enabled in the system. Is this expected?

 

some example outputs:
 

~$ ls -l /dev/kvm
ls: cannot access '/dev/kvm': No such file or directory

~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i kvm
[    0.184039] kvm [1]: HYP mode not available

 

also no output on 

 

lscpu | grep Virtualization

 

[Nick A]

@Shubham Singh 

To check if KVM is compiled into the kernel, use the following command: 

grep CONFIG_KVM /boot/config-$(uname -r)

 

CONFIG_KVM=y
CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y
CONFIG_KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK=y

You also need to ensure your CPU supports virtualization. Check with:  

egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

 

0

 

A return value greater than 0 indicates virtualization support is present.

 

CPU doesn't support virtualization.

 

Check the official Radxa image. Using these commands. I doubt it works. I'm using the same kernel config and Board support package.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Nick A