New Kernel for H3 series boards - 4.5 on the way

Rangarid

It looks like H3 support was added in sunxi kernel in 4.2:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Merged_into_4.2

H3

• Introduce H3 support (commit)
• DMA Controller (commit)
  

Unfortunately no board was added yet. But then the plans for kernel 4.5 are these:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Planned_for_4.5

• Allwinner H3 SoC support
  

Added board support: Xunlong Orange Pi Plus

So if the plus is supported it should be really easy to use that on a oPi PC as well. Looks like we will get a very recent kernel pretty soon and we can finally throw away the 3.4 Kernel.

faddat

.....for headless applications, yes.  Anything needing accelerated video, however, I think it's going to be a very long (likely eternal) wait indeed.  

zgoda

I don't need HW accel, I'm eager to get newer kernel to dump ugly hacks to have Docker working.

faddat

Wait, you mean that you got docker running on the 3.4 kernel?

Docker is what makes me pine for a new kernel, too.  Also, you may want to check out Armbian.  I have been hearing great news of progress with all this from their camp.  

zgoda

It works stable but IO performance is poor - no overlayfs. Add this to generally poor IO of SD cards and you get the picture.

darqoq

zgoda replied at 2016-2-12 01:17
It works stable but IO performance is poor - no overlayfs. Add this to generally poor IO of SD cards ...

Which distro you are using Docker working ? Have you made some hacks to run it on 3.4 kernel ?

You can patch (https://github.com/adilinden/ove ... s.v13-3.4-rc7.patch)
current orangePi kernel (3.4) to add overlayfs. I tried and the patch has applied without any problem.

rupy

You can try https://github.com/tinspin/rupy, probably more lightweight and faster.

zgoda

darqoq replied at 2016-3-8 18:08
Which distro you are using Docker working ? Have you made some hacks to run it on 3.4 kernel ?

Yo ...

Arch Linux, by accident. Any will work with appropriate kernel config.

makama80

FYI: kernel 4.5 is a fact: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.5

pgauret

Anyone managed to get the Orange PI Plus eMMC working with the latest u-boot & mainline kernel?