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slackware arm on banana pi?

1. It's possible install slackware arm (or any distro based on slack - slax ...)?

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Originally Posted by inkscape (Post 5196773)

1. It's possible install slackware arm (or any distro based on slack - slax ...)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi

http://arm.slackware.com/listarchive...ly/001765.html

I read first link. No word about slackware. Something about Allwinner A20 SoC.
I do not know much about it.
Second link tell that banana pi=A7 not run but only A6?
Please explain.

It has an Allwinner A20 soc in it: have a look here ... look for the image builder stuff that will build bootable images for most Axx based systems (but if you read it all it will not hurt).

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Originally Posted by inkscape (Post 5196773)

1. It's possible install slackware arm (or any distro based on slack - slax ...)?

http://arm.slackware.com/FAQs/

Summary: "Yes" and get ready to roll your sleeves up :-)

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Originally Posted by inkscape (Post 5196773)

1. It's possible install slackware arm (or any distro based on slack - slax ...)?

Yes.

I have integrated support for the BPi in -current, I just need to write the documentation for it and tidy up the Kernel package a bit before pushing it public.

My documentation will be based on wanting to install Slackware on to a SATA drive. Diffs will be welcomed for other installation media targets.
The only thing to note though is that you'll need to use it as a headless machine because the HDMI support is not present since it's not been upstreamed. The installation is conducted using the regular Slackware installer, so you'll need to attach a USB serial cable to it in order to access the U-Boot console.
The documentation will explain what is required.

It's a shame about the lack of HDMI/graphics support but there's nothing I can do about that until/if/when it gets upstreamed.

Code:

root@platano:~# strings /proc/device-tree/model && uname -a

LeMaker Banana Pi

Linux platano 3.19.0-armv7 #2 SMP Fri Feb 20 23:42:40 GMT 2015 armv7l Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family GNU/Linux

root@platano:~#cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor      : 0

model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)

BogoMIPS        : 48.00

Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm

CPU implementer : 0x41

CPU architecture: 7

CPU variant    : 0x0

CPU part        : 0xc07

CPU revision    : 4



processor      : 1

model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)

BogoMIPS        : 48.00

Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm

CPU implementer : 0x41

CPU architecture: 7

CPU variant    : 0x0

CPU part        : 0xc07

CPU revision    : 4



Hardware        : Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family

Revision        : 0000

Serial          : 0000000000000000

@David,
G'day David, Please note that your link has a typo, should be:

Code:

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:hacking_the_xzpad700_7_tablet

You have an extra "http//" in yours.

@justwantin
It appears that I missed : in http:// ... but the post is too old and the system won't let me edit it.
Thanks for pointing out anyway

No worry. It's an easy mistake. The URL pop up window already contains [http://}. If one copy/pastes a url off a browser and does not delete what is already in the pop up there'll be a double entry. It almost got me today. Anyway, that's a good howto you wrote there.