On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 07:03:50PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
I think finding out what that bug that prevents us from using a modern version of linux is a high priority too.
the list of peripherals and features supported is right there on the linux mainline sunxi page. when it's at 100% full and complete support for *all* hardware features (VPU, 2D engine etc. included), and the available libraries (libcedrus through libvdpau, xserver-xorg-fb-turbo and more) have *all* been updated to support that linux mainline kernel version, then and *only* then is it okay to *consider* abandoning the many months of (tested, proven) work done over the past few years and to *consider* releasing updated OSes to go on top of them.
Originally the issue was that it has failed to boot. Issues with the boot loader. What about those? An issue with kernel >= 4.9 or so.