[ARMedslack] Kernel for Allwinner A1X

[Davide]

>> It appears that the usb driver in the linux-sunxi kernel is bust (at
>> least on A1X based devices) and I don't think that there is any chance
>> of them fixing it any time soon. I even downloaded the 3.0 stable
>> version sources hoping that at least their stable version (as opposed to
>> the 3.4 developement kernel) still had working usb correctly, but it had
>> the exact same issues as the 3.4 linux-sunxi kernel (ie only some usb
>> devices work properly while some that work correctly on the stock
>> android kernel just don't work with their kernel).
>>
>> Anyone tried using vanilla kernels on Allwinner SOC based systems ?
>> Anyone know what's going to work and what's not going to work if I try
>> compiling a kernel from kernel.org ? touch screen is not important
>> because that's not working well enough to be functional anyway.

>I don't have any Allwiner machines, but I did add some Allwinner SoC
>configs into the Linux 3.10 kernels.  If there are any patches, I could
>apply them to Linux 3.10.  I think we'll be using Linux 3.10 for the
>Slackware 14.1 release.  I did try Linux 3.11 but it was quite broken.

I'm gonna try building 3.10.12 without any patches at all just to see what's going to work and what's not.

ATB
David
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