Re: orange pi plus

[Roman Ryzhov <roman.ryzhov@gmail.com>]

Thanks Karsten,

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> On 01 Jan 2016, at 05:37, Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 05:19:15PM +0300, Roman Ryzhov wrote:
>> 
>> Can some one please share manual for installation of debian on
>> Orange PI Plus (Allwinner H3 soc)?
> 
> The debian-installer currently has no support for any H3-based
> devices because the installer is based on the mainline Linux
> kernel and H3 support in the mainline kernel is just in its
> infancy.  Some further parts necessary for supporting the H3 are
> planned to go into kernel 4.5, but even then one important issue
> remains: there is no functioning network driver for the H3
> ethernet controller in the mainline kernel - the corresponding IP
> block in the H3 appears to be largely different from the one in
> older Allwinner SoCs such as the A10/A13/A20, so the existing
> dwmac-sunxi driver doesn't work on the H3.  AFAIK somebody is
> working on H3 ethernet support, but that will probably require
> quite some time.
> 
> You could theoretically use debootstrap to build a Debian root
> filesystem and customize that manually, try to build yourself a
> suitable kernel and a suitable u-boot from the andoid sources for
> the Orange PI Plus and then contruct an SD card image from these
> parts, but that requires rather deep technical knowledge.
> 
> Regards,
> Karsten
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