Radxa Cubie A7A/A7Z - Allwinner a733

[Nick A]

@Jain Ziad I'm currently working on hardware acceleration, though I can't say yet if it will outperform the official Radxa builds since it uses the same drivers. I'll keep the community updated on the results.

[cest73]

Hello NickA, fire-hound from discord here  ...
You do a tremendous service for us all, keep it up buddy!

I loaded your recent build from here: https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases
and can confirm it works on my A7A.

It correctly detected my Pimorony NVME Base

 

lsblk 
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mtdblock0    31:0    0     8M  0 disk 
mmcblk0     179:0    0  29.2G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  28.6G  0 part /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay
                                      /var/log.hdd
                                      /
zram0       254:0    0   3.9G  0 disk [SWAP]
zram1       254:1    0    50M  0 disk /var/log
zram2       254:2    0     0B  0 disk 
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0 238.5G  0 part /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-b28b2f5c-ee2e-4ded-959e-22bc63051b1d

 

and:

screenfetch 
         _,met$$$$$gg.           root@radxa-cubie-a7a
      ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P.        OS: Debian 13 trixie
    ,g$$P""       """Y$$.".      Kernel: aarch64 Linux 6.6.98-vendor-sun60iw2
   ,$$P'              `$$$.      Uptime: 11h 14m
  ',$$P       ,ggs.     `$$b:    Packages: 661
  `d$$'     ,$P"'   .    $$$     Shell: bash 5.2.37
   $$P      d$'     ,    $$P     Disk: 4.9G / 271G (2%)
   $$:      $$.   -    ,d$$'     CPU: ARM Cortex-A55 Cortex-A76 @ 8x 1.794GHz
   $$\;      Y$b._   _,d$P'      RAM: 534MiB / 7928MiB
   Y$$.    `.`"Y$$$$P"'         
   `$$b      "-.__              
    `Y$$                        
     `Y$$.                      
       `$$b.                    
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                `""""           

So far so good

The issues:
1. The typical Armbian image has a module in the armbian-config and radxa's rsetup where one can set up the two leds conveiently to other than full on and heartbeat for the green and blue gpio leds respectively.

I find it to be a nuisance to dig for that manually

2. The Ovralys module in armbian-config is returning an error - when entering DTO001 module (Device Tree Overlays) saying:

Invalid overlay_prefix

that might require deeper digging into the issue i guess?

 

What works:
Open Media Vault registers the NVME nicely as additional storage.

I suspect booting off that NVME would work for an updated SPI bootloader i could test that if you want me to?


 

If you need any other info or output I stand at Your disposal 😁