Add Radxa Cubie A5E (sun55i-a527)

[juanesf]

Add support for Radxa Cubie A5E with linux 6.12 tested and 6.14 working, initial support for Allwinner A523/A527/T527 by Andre Przywara.

How Has This Been Tested?

Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration.

• Tested on radxa cubie a5e 2gb ram without emmc
• kernel 6.12 was tested with Andre Przywara "apritzel" branch
• kernel 6.14 is being used with Andre Przywara "apritzel" branch
• GPT partition table
• MBR partition table

Checklist:

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• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• My changes generate no new warnings

[jyl520]

Hello ， can you share the compiled debian firmware for A5e and A527? The 6.12 kernel. Thank you very much

[juanesf]

@jyl520
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/49353-opi-4a-allwinner-t527/page/2/#findComment-212947

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/49353-opi-4a-allwinner-t527/

[juanesf]

full_log-armbian-cubie-a5e.log

[juanesf]

Thanks also to @NickAlilovic, @apritzel, @jernejsk and @warpme for your help and work done and everyone in the Armbian community

[juanesf]

Hello ， can you share the compiled debian firmware for A5e and A527? The 6.12 kernel. Thank you very much

was able to make it work?

[juanesf]

Image with gpt partition working

log-gpt.txt

[jyl520]

Hello guy, can you provide an img image of the debian system based on the emmmc boot based on the cuibe a5e a527 of the 6.12 kernel? Thank you very much!

[jyl520]

Hello, there is a problem with the firmware shared before, it can't be started by eMMC, and the IP address is not recognized, please fix it, thank you!

[juanesf]

log armbian with gpt partition table

log-armbian-gpt-partition.txt

[jyl520]

Hello,can you provide an img image of the debian system based on the emmmc boot based on the cuibe a5e a527 of the 6.12 kernel? Thank you very much!

[mizegit]

I just downloaded the PR and build armbain, try it on my board (1GB RAM), but the boot is stuck at the first line of U-Boot.

U-Boot SPL 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-52ebd-p0000-He0b4-V67f3-Bb703-R448a+ (Mar 07 2025 - 05:00:13 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB

[juanesf]

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  / _ \| '_| '  \| '_ \ / _` | ' \___| || | ' \/ _ \  _|  _| / _| / _` | |
 /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_|   \_,_|_||_\___/_| |_| |_\__|_\__,_|_|

 v25.05 rolling for radxa cubie a5e running Armbian Linux 6.14.0-rc1-dev-sun55iw3

 Packages:     Debian stable (bookworm)
 Support:      DIY (custom image)
 IP addresses: (LAN) IPv4:  IPv6:
 Performance:

 Load:         13%              Up time:       1 min
 Memory usage: 7% of 1.93G
 Usage of /:   12% of 14G

 Commands:

 Configuration : armbian-config
 Monitoring    : htop

root@radxa-cubie-a5e:~#

Kernel 6.14 port

root@radxa-cubie-a5e:~# uname -a
Linux radxa-cubie-a5e 6.14.0-rc1-dev-sun55iw3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar  6 20:33:40 -03 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux