Linux Kernal Development - BETA Boards

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JFTR: Still nobody managed to get Linux running on A64:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Pine64#BSP
http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi...4#15188515;

Considering very few devs actually have the boards yet, that's not surprising.

You're not surprised by the obvious fact that no-one before booted Linux on this thing? Not even Allwinner itself?

That's just based on reading the IRC log for quite some time and getting the impression that the persons chatting there know what they're talking about. I would've thought that it's as easy as 'boot kernel and choose whatever rootfs you want'. But reading about trusted firmware, firmware/u-boot being 32-bit and containing 'nasty' patches, entering the kernel in EL3 mode (which seems to be forbidden) therefore violating the arm64 boot protocol preventing upstream kernels to boot... (and much other stuff I've no clue of) it doesn't look that good to me.

Especially that several people reported that the SDK from the Pine's wiki pages seems to be broken and no-one took care of...

I will check out the broken SDK link at wiki page and correct in 24 hours.