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Sergey Matyukevich 416af351cb sdimage: add support for sun50i sunxi boards 
Modify sdcard_image-sunxi bbclass to support both sun50i and older
SoC families. Major changes are as follows:
- update comments: disk layout info
- increase boot partition size: aarch64 unified kernels can be large
- kernel image in boot partition: replace explicit name by KERNEL_IMAGETYPE
- SPL image: replace explicit name by SPL_BINARY
- implement flexible DTB file location in boot partition
  -- e.g. by defaut sun50i u-boot looks for dtb in allwinner subdirectory
  -- follow kernel dtb naming conventions, e.g. allwinner/<board>.dtb
- copy aarch64 u-boot image to image
  -- sunxi arm boards use unified u-boot/spl image
  -- sunxi aarch64 boards use two different images

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
2017-12-03 22:32:13 +03:00
classes sdimage: add support for sun50i sunxi boards 2017-12-03 22:32:13 +03:00
conf u-boot: enable support for sun50i 2017-12-03 22:24:12 +03:00
recipes-bsp u-boot: enable support for sun50i 2017-12-03 22:24:12 +03:00
recipes-devtools/python pypi requires a https connection 2017-10-27 13:46:41 +02:00
recipes-graphics Disables tslib 2017-02-13 09:39:29 +00:00
recipes-kernel/linux linux: enable sun50i support 2017-12-03 22:28:10 +03:00
recipes-multimedia/gstreamer gst-plugin-cedar: import PoC gstreamer 0.10 plugin 2014-01-16 13:52:23 +01:00
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meta-sunxi

Official sunxi OpenEmbedded layer for Allwinner-based boards.

This layer depends on the additional layer:

meta-openembedded: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded

Tested with core-image-base.

Maintainers:

Kernel / U-Boot Version

Most Allwinner devices and hardware are supported in mainline kernel and U-Boot, so this layer builds mainline by default. There is a custom U-Boot and Kernel version for sunxi devices which includes some special drivers not mainlined. These versions are rather old (3.4 for kernel and 2014.04 for U-Boot), but may support more functions and devices than current mainline

If you want to switch back to sunxi versions for some reasons (no device tree available, unsupported hardware), either:

  • change the file conf/machine/include/sunxi.inc to include the following block

  • edit your conf/local.conf to add the following block

    PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot="u-boot-sunxi" PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader="u-boot-sunxi" PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel="linux-sunxi"

If you already have built the mainline versions it might be necessary to reset the build directories with:

bitbake -c clean linux u-boot

Performance

The default machine settings are meant to be the lowest common denominator, maximizing generality. Significantly better performance (2x-3x) can be achieved with the following settings:

Allwinner A20

For Allwinner A20 (Cubieboard2/CubieTruck), the following tuning options are recommended:

Enable hardfloat, thumb2 and neon capabilities

DEFAULTTUNE = "cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4"

This tuning profile takes advantage of the Allwinner A20 hardfloat, neon and vfpv4 capabilities.

Change CPU governor to ondemand, and tune settings

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo 336000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
echo 912000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
#More aggressive
#echo 1008000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
echo 40 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold
echo 200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate

This code changes the default CPU governor from fantasy to ondemand, and tunes its settings, as recommended at http://linux-sunxi.org/Cpufreq

For additional discussion, see https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/25