No idea if this can be automated. They are pretty old now anyway and probably would not apply cleanly. Best is probably to browse the mailing list archive and manually extract and apply the relevant code.
Quite frankly not sure this is worth the effort if one has worked on H3 mainline support since then, you'll end up with what I described above, 1 core running way below max cpu freq, no networking.

Edited by moinejf at 2015-10-17 16:23

I am also working (slowly) on the mainline kernel.
A first patch on the kernel 4.2 from Jens did boot with one CPU at slow speed and the UART.
I update Jens's patch for the kernel 4.3, but I should have done some error: the kernel does not boot and there is no trace because no UART!
Anyway, I uploaded this patch on my site - see http://moinejf.free.fr/opi2/.

Pratically, I build the kernel on my OPI2 (kernel 3.4) with gcc-5.2.1. At the end of generation (including the copy of the .dts at the end of the kernel), as root, I just copy the uImage to the first partition of the SDcard (with a name different of the 3.4) and install the modules.
To test the kernel, I reboot, stopping the automatic start in the U-boot, and replacing the 'uImage' name in the 'boot_normal' variable.

Otherwise, I tried to write a rtl8189es driver starting from the 8188ee, but I have only a few knowledge about SDIO, so,
I am writing a DRM video driver...

Your patch (http://moinejf.free.fr/opi2/kernel-3.4.patch) fix HDMI audio.So, you touched "HDMI files", could you try to add support form HDMI CEC ?

It it possible to use for exmaple these files:

https://github.com/orangepi-xunl ... rs/video/sunxi/hdmi
https://github.com/orangepi-xunl ... vers/video/hdmi-cec

Hi All,
I've had some success this evening booting the latest u-boot and the linux-next kernel with the patches that jemk has just pushed. I'll put some instructions together tomorrow morning if anybody wants them. There is still loads to do but this a massive step in the right direction.

https://gist.github.com/codekipper/e188f9ab36ae7869afa7

CK

There is a long road to go, but probably the only one who is worth.
It makes me a little angry that allwinner does absolutely nothing to support this effort.