Hey all, I can confirm this patch still works, and the resulting stock image has a working NIC on a NanoPi Neo. Install completed, no issues, and the machine is ssh'able over my network.
Thanks, all! I'm one happy camper! Paul On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> wrote: > It looks like the Debian package may be carrying the dwmac-sun8i > driver. I'm going to test it out locally. > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 08:23:52AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:11:56PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> >>> > vagrantc added support for the NanoPi in u-boot in version >>> > 2016.03~rc3+dfsg1-1, and i've been playing with it since. >>> > Finally, with Linux 4.13, the NanoPi emac driver has been >>> > mainlined, and it (finally!) is starting to look sensible. >>> > >>> > I've got my NanoPi booted and the eth looking happy, but I've >>> > not completed an install yet. Attached is a patch to >>> > generate the firmware image. I was able to test the >>> > generated image, and it booted. >>> > >>> > Attached is a patch against debian-installer/installer, >>> > adding the NanoPiNeo to the u-boot-image-config. >> [...] >>> many thanks for the patch. I will apply it to the d-i >>> repository, but I would prefer to wait until we have have >>> kernel 4.13 in unstable and can change the d-i kernel ABI >>> setting accordingly. Currently we build d-i based on kernel >>> 4.12 which doesn't support the H3 EMAC, so a 4.12-based netboot >>> image wouldn't be usable on a "plain" NanoPi Neo (i.e. without >>> adding a USB-ethernet-adaptor). >> >> Hello, >> >> unfortunately some issues regarding the devicetree bindings for >> the H3 EMAC driver couldn't be sorted out before the final >> release of kernel 4.13. As a result, the sunxi port maintainers >> and the ARM-SoC maintainer have decided to revert the >> corresponding patches and work on a proper solution during the >> 4.14 development cycle: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fabed5ad230a5ff8320b2928ec20a52e59a9bf60 >> >> I'll keep your patch on my todo list and revisit it again once >> the H3 EMAC driver is completely upstream (hopefully in kernel >> 4.14). >> >> Regards, >> Karsten >> -- >> Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung >> sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der >> Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung. > > > > -- > :wq -- :wq
