Bump to linux-4.x.y

[ndoo]

linux-3.4.y is quite an old release, and the amount of changed lines from upstream kernel is not too much.

Are there plans to work on a newer kernel version? Also it would be great if support for this SoC is upstreamed.

[friendlyarm]

Thank you for your attention. In general we focus on a kernel which gets support from chip vendors. If chip vendors release a new kernel usually we will catch up with it otherwise we may not do it.

[ndoo]

Thanks for the comment. It would bring about a lot of nice things like having updated device tree support.

[icebob]

+1

[sarietta]

@friendlyarm is there any word from the chip vendor (Nexell I believe) about when they are going to release a new version?

Supporting 4.x.y on some of your products would be a enormous win.

[igorpecovnik]

We just added 4.6.7 and 4.7.2 for H3 based boards, first one is Nanopi Neo: http://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/

[ndoo]

This issue is specifically referring to linux-3.4.y boards i.e. Nexell boards.

[igorpecovnik]

With Nexell I haven't done much of a research yet but moving from "old android kernel" toward recent is a heavy project even for experienced crews, especially if documentation is poor, if we need to face blobs and (c) issues. How far and what was already done, don't know and can't really comment. Out of all dev boards, what is known to me, good mainline support is on: Rpi, most popular Allwinners, some imx6, ... , rk3188, odroid xu4, ... Even Samsung chips have issues on mainline kernel what prevents usage in productive environment, while you can use first three from the list mostly without any serious problems.

[ndoo]

Yup, the request is intended to be addressed to FriendlyArm and Nexell to complete the port as vendors of the boards rather than a request for the larger community to unbreak the codebase and forward port :)

[sarietta]

Exactly @ndoo. I have attempted to email the contact noted in arch/arm/boot/cpu.c at Nexell about any possible updates, but I'm not sure if that will work.

It seems to me that someone at @friendlyarm must have a contact at Nexell who can at least provide a timeline.

[awl1]

Have a look here for the latest news:
http://www.friendlyarm.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=204&start=10

Nexell:

There will be a 64-bit based linux kernel on S5P6818 and the kernel version will be 3.18 or up. But when will it be released, we don't know exactly. It's under developing. The schedule is at the end of 2016 the 64-bit kernel will be released.

FriendlyARM:

Once we get this support we will arrange its development but we cannot say it for sure exactly we will be able to release it since it depends on various factors

[daiaji]

Oh, it's 2017
No new kernel messages

[spacecdr]

They have totally gave up this project... never an update... 🙁

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[daiaji]

@spacecdr
A good news！
I found SamsungARTIK
Artik 710 (S5P6818) has available 4.4 ARM64 kernel
Metro94 seems to be working on some NanoPi-M3 bootloader and kernel porting
😄

Dear Metro94, dear jensen, dear hmz007 Dear Friendly-arm community,

I would like to use the kernel from the A710/v4.4 branch of https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/linux-artik on the Nanopi-M3. With gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.02-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz toolchain from Linaro, I get :

./arch/arm64/boot/dts/nexell/s5p6818-artik710-raptor-rev01.dtb
./arch/arm64/boot/dts/nexell/s5p6818-artik710-explorer.dtb
./arch/arm64/boot/dts/nexell/s5p6818-drone.dtb
./arch/arm64/boot/dts/nexell/s5p6818-artik710-raptor-rev03.dtb
./arch/arm64/boot/dts/nexell/s5p6818-artik710-raptor-rev00.dtb

and 211 modules. (I will see later for the three modules bcmdhd.ko nx_vpu.ko vr.ko, for now, I just need a reasonable recent kernel able to start an android init service or even just a linux elf binary or bash script)

and a image

arch/arm64/boot/Image

Is it possible to load it ?

-with the nanopi2-lollipop-mr1 branch of https://github.com/friendlyarm/uboot_nanopi2.git ?

if not

-with the A710/v2016.01 branch of https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/u-boot-artik.git or the NanoPi_M3 branch of https://github.com/metro94/NanoPi_M3-U-boot.git ?

if not

-with a mixture of NanoPi_M3 branch of https://github.com/metro94/NanoPi_M3-2ndboot.git + one of the previous mentionned uboot

if not

something even more strange ;) ???

What is the current status of Samsung/Nexell/friendlyarm collaboration on these reasonable recents uboot + 64bits-linux/drivers ???

I mean... come on... guys, it's May 2017, Jonathan Corbet announced yesterday on lwn.net

The 4.11.2, 4.10.17, 4.9.29, 4.4.69, and 3.18.54 stable kernel updates have all been released with the usual set of important fixes. Note that this is the final update for the 4.10 kernel.

and Greg KH announced in September 2016 on lwn.net

the 3.14.y LTS kernel series is now end-of-life ...

Please Friendly-Arm, update the wiki and give us a way to have reasonable recent uboot/linux/{ubuntu/android} software !! and not a 32bits 3.4.* kernel thas has already reached it's Projected EOL (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html)

We can help, test, debug, but the bare-metal stuff have to be done by friendly-arm / nexell / samsung ...

Thank you all in advance !

[friendlyarm]

Actually we tried code from https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/boot-firmwares-artik710 and https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/u-boot-artik and made an SD card. Unfortunately that SD card couldn't boot our board. We may have to wait for Nexell to release its latest BSP. We can do development based on u-boot-artik and https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/linux-artik but without a workable boot-firmware we cannot boot our board and test an image.