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nand-sata-install doesn't seem to work for nanopc-T3 #1035

Closed daiaji closed 6 years ago

daiaji commented 6 years ago

I used the image of nanopi M3 After using nand-sata-install, my nanopc-T3 could not boot.

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

It's a known problem (noted at the download page) of T3 eMMc support within u-boot. The script works properly, but until someone with a better understanding of u-boot solve this, it will remain broken.

daiaji commented 6 years ago

@igorpecovnik Does this mean that nanopc-T3+ will also have such a problem? Friendlyarm seems to have given up technical support for Nanopc-T3, which is too bad.😭

I remember that the Ubuntu installer built by rafaello7 can work on the EMMC of nanopc-T3. There should be relevant U-boot source code in repositories of rafaello7.

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

Does this mean that nanopc-T3+ will also have such a problem?

Yes.

Friendlyarm seems to have given up technical support for Nanopc-T3, which is too bad.

Board from FA perspective works well enough. If you want more and better support, you need to throw money into the R&D. We already spent too much of engineering hours solo on this board and all we got back are complains and user demands. There is virtually no financial help except our own pocket which is closed for further investment. If you want some feature fixed, covering development time might be a possible way to go.

I remember that the Ubuntu installer built by rafaello7 can work on the EMMC of nanopc-T3. There should be relevant U-boot source code in repositories of rafaello7.

We use his u-boot which doesn't have proper support for eMMC located on T3+ ... the only board with eMMC I have. Stock FA u-boot, which is different from this one has support for eMMC but it can't boot this kernel. All sources are avaliable but you need time and focus to deal with.

daiaji commented 6 years ago

@igorpecovnik Some reports on these days. I've been trying to compile Linux 4.14.39. But this version of the kernel is not working on Nanopc-T3. Until I found that rafaello7 provided bl1-nanopi-m3 1.2. The update log reads "Added correction for kernel 4.14.39+". That solved my problem. At least I can make kernel 4.14.39 work on EMMC.😀

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

Yes, I know that. Armbian is aligned with this + a few patches on top, 4.14.65 ATM but have you succeeded in booting from eMMC? That is still unresolved.

daiaji commented 6 years ago

@igorpecovnik I didn't have Linux 4.14.65, so I didn't test. This may require more patches to u-boot. Or get updates from https://github.com/SamsungARTIK/u-boot-artik.git.

But at least Linux 4.14.39 can now work in EMMC. 😁

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

The problem is u-boot. I am aware of that. I already tried to merge things in but failed. Which u-boot do you use?

daiaji commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/rafaello7/u-boot-nanopi-m3/ and https://github.com/rafaello7/bl1-nanopi-m3 Use https://github.com/rafaello7/nanopi-boot-tools brush to write u-boot All this was done on https://github.com/rafaello7/debian-installer-nanopi-m3. 😀

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

Thank you. Then I have to check what we did wrong.

daiaji commented 6 years ago

@igorpecovnik I tried to upgrade the kernel to 4.14.65 version and compile it through patches. He can work on the u-boot provided by rafaello7. So why not be a bit more crazy? So I tried to update the kernel to version 4.18. It seems that https://github.com/rafaello7/linux-nanopi-m3-v4.14 lacks some ACPI source code in the process, but I don't think it's fatal Until updated to version 4.18, it seems that patch is in conflict with some of the source code provided by Samsung. It seems that I should try to solve this problem tomorrow. Maybe it's not difficult.

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

I already tried to go up to 4.16.y a while ago but noticed that a lot of things has been changed regarding handling CPU. It's above my understanding/would consume a lot of time (once again). I have Fire3 and T3+ now on my table and I already fix few minor things, have found a fix for eMMC booting https://github.com/rafaello7/debian-installer-nanopi-m3/blob/master/nanopi-bootable/debian/postinst#L80-L84 and I hope I will be able to push commits tomorrow.

igorpecovnik commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/86a00ada34324d902dca380ccdf06d935bf095f9