Mainline Kernel 5.3.0-rc6 BananaPi M2 Zero

Mainline Kernel 5.3.0-rc6

THE DEB PACKAGE IS BROKEN - PLEASE MOVE ON TO 5.3.0.rc7-m2z

This is Mainline Kernel 5.3.0-rc6 for the BananaPi M2 Zero

• Add support for Device Tree Overlays

Requirements:

• Make a backup of your data
• Install new Bootloader
• install kernel 5.3.0-rc6-m2z

DT Overlay

update the bootloader:

sudo dd if=./bootloader_2z_v3.bin conv=notrunc bs=1k seek=8 of=/dev/sdX where X is your device (b,c,d...)

update the kernel:

sudo dpkg -i linux-image-5.3.0-rc6_1.0-26.deb

• example

Change / add your dto file in /boot/bpi-m2-zero_boot.cmd and recompile it.

ext4load mmc 0 ${dtb_addr} bpi-m2-zero.dtb
fdt addr ${dtb_addr}
// ===================
// DT Overlay sample code
// ===================
// start
fdt resize
setexpr fdtovaddr ${fdt_addr_r} + F000
ext4load mmc 0 ${fdtovaddr} m2z_sample.dto
// end

/boot tree should be like this

    /boot$ ls -la
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      20 Jan 15  2018 boot.scr -> bpi-m2-zero_boot.scr
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root    1183 Nov 24  2018 bpi-m2-zero_boot.cmd
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root    1255 Nov 24  2018 bpi-m2-zero_boot.scr
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      32 Set  1 14:28 bpi-m2-zero.dtb -> bpi-m2-zero-v4.dtb_5.3.0-rc6-m2z
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root   25990 Set  1 14:28 bpi-m2-zero-v4.dtb_5.3.0-rc6-m2z
    -rw-rw-r--  1 alex alex  982455 Jan 17  2018 initrd.img
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      20 Set  1 14:28 zImage -> zImage_5.3.0-rc6-m2z
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5749256 Set  1 14:28 zImage_5.3.0-rc6-m2z