Cubieboard anyone?

[andre]

My CubieBoard arrived last friday, but I only had time to take a look at it today.
First of all it turned out to be the 512 MB version. I assumed it would be an 1 GB
version, as this was advertised on the Indiegogo campaign.

So far my findings:

Using the Mele A100 instructions, which script.bin file as described above,
does not boot. The ArchLinuxARM kernel appears to be having problems with the CubieBoard.

Using the kernel from http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/amery/sunxi-3 ... ack.tar.xz
The board boots up correctly. I tested the script.bin from this image with the ArchLinuxARM kernel,
so rule out the problem being caused by an incorrect script.bin file. The Arch kernel still having
the problem, but the linux-sunxi kernel booting fine. So, the issue is with the kernel in combination
with the board.

So, the installation procedure would be:
Partition the SD Card using the mkA10card.sh from Mele-bootloader.tar.gz
Extract the ArchLinuxARM-sun4i-latest.tar.gz to the root partition
copy the content of the bootloader and kernel directory from cubieboard_512_hwpack.tar.xz to the boot partition
copy uEnv.txt from Mele-bootloader.tar.gz to the boot partition
copy the content of the rootfs directory to the root partition

This boots the system, giving a console on the serial port. I still have no output on the HDMI port. I will have to do some more investigations about this issue.

[WarheadsSE]

Thanks for the feedback. I really need to get back to this kernel & the guys developing it.

[andre]

You're welcome.
I believe I forgot to attach the kernel log. (When trying to add it, extension txt is not allowed)
I've also written about the CubieBoard on my blog, so I'll link to the kernel log there:
http://andre.blaatschaap.be/2012/12/cubieboard-and-a-little-pi/arch-kernel/

[WarheadsSE]

I took a look at the log, definitely a problem with the hcd init, probably because that kernel needs updated I've seen that problem with slight mis-configs as well.

[ealrann]

Thanks for the post.

Does anybody tryed the SPDIF on the GPIO ? I only have the default audio (sun4i-CODEC) and the hdmi (sun4i-sndhdmi) but no SPDIF output.

Edit : I also tried the last sunxi kernel (3.4), but still no SPDIF.

[ealrann]

Ok, spdif detected (use modules in /lib/modules/3.4.19/kernel/sound/soc/sun4i/spdif).

[zaghaghi]

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')So, the installation procedure would be:
Partition the SD Card using the mkA10card.sh from Mele-bootloader.tar.gz
Extract the ArchLinuxARM-sun4i-latest.tar.gz to the root partition
copy the content of the bootloader and kernel directory from cubieboard_512_hwpack.tar.xz to the boot partition
copy uEnv.txt from Mele-bootloader.tar.gz to the boot partition
copy the content of the rootfs directory to the root partition

[WarheadsSE]

I have also updated the kernel from linux-sunxi, and placed it into the repo. I need to make a new rootfs.

[andre]

I am still looking at getting X working.
There is a package in AUR, xf86-video-mali, which appears to be broken.
It depends on mali400, which only contains binaries, but no headers, and during build <ump/ump.h> is missing.
( using https://github.com/linux-sunxi/libump it builds )
However, it builds it's own xorg-server-mali replacing teh xorg-mali, resulting in ABI conflicts.

This also brings me to take another look at my guide, what to do with the libraries from the hardware pack? As they are in mali400, and libump comes from the git repository mentioned above.

[rvalles]

Just received mine. For now I'm using the linaro that's available from berryboot to install, but intend to move to arch later on, perhaps when dd-able images are available.