Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

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Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

Postby fhh200000 » Sat Apr 09, 2022 1:27 am

Hi there,
Sorry for my poor English because I live in China.
I recently got a Chinese NAS board called CatDrive and I have successfully managed to get Arch Linux ARM running on it.
Its spec is very similar to Espressobin (Marvell ARMADA 3720/Marvell 88E1510). The only difference is that it has only 1 Ethernet port and only 1 USB port.
I tried to modify the Device Tree for it to boot with "Generic" ARMv8 platform. Everything works perfectly!
Now I wonder if I could add it to Support List on Wiki, and provide a new "CatDrive" platform tarball (or instructions on how to patch "Generic" platform tarball)? Thanks!

Required patch :https://github.com/fhh200000/archlinux-arm-mainline-catdrive

(BTW, this CatDrive uses AW2013 LED Driver for its status notification. Since mainline kernel does not configure AW2013 chip driver, I add it via DKMS. Is there a better solution for this if I can package it? )
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Re: Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

Postby fhh200000 » Mon Apr 11, 2022 12:11 am

hmmmm……Hello? Anyone there? Did I post in the wrong section?
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Re: Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

Postby moonman » Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:17 am

Hi, feel free to post the instructions in the community supported devices. This isn't likely to be on the list of officially supported devices since core developers don't have one of these.
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Re: Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

Postby fhh200000 » Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:20 am

Got it, Thanks! :)
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Re: Request for adding new platform: CatDrive

Postby summers » Sun Apr 17, 2022 5:43 pm

Yes i did instructions for the Pocket Beagle: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=12623

And it was never added to the supported list.

I did wonder why? Did the developers ever ask for a Pocket Beagle? Or did Pocket Beagle manufactures just never send a sample to archlinux arm, maybe because there were already informal instructions for how to support it? Or was it just because no one ever cared?
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