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      "-.__              
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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 😁

 

[tin harden]

Is there mainline support for a7a now

[Nick A]

@tin harden A7A mainline is still a WIP.

[alexc]

Hi all,

Over the past few months working on the A7Z, I’ve successfully ported a number of BSP drivers to Linux 6.18.

The code is available here:
https://github.com/alexcaoys/allwinner-bsp/tree/linux-6.18.y

It’s currently tested on 6.18.19 and should, in theory, work with newer 6.18.y releases. I’ve tried to reuse as much upstream (mainline) drivers as possible, and have also upstreamed support for PCK600 and ET7304 used on the A7Z.

Hopefully this helps accelerate ongoing mainline efforts. Feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome.

I may also look into creating branches for Linux 7.x in the future.