A80

This is the second Allwinner SoC which uses PowerVR instead of MALI for GPU. See also SoC A31

=Overview=

Currently, there is no linux-sunxi support available. We only just got our hands on an SDK, and devices are slowly becoming available.

=A80 SoC Features=
 * CPU:
 * ARM Cortex-A15/A7 dual Quad-Core
 * 256KB L1-Cache
 * 1MB L2-Cache
 * 33bit address bus with theoretical 7.5G usable RAM (evb has 4G memory)
 * GPU:
 * PowerVR G6230
 * 64-core
 * Comply with Open GL ES3.x, Open CL1.x, DirectX 11 level 9_3/10_0
 * Video:
 * UHD H.264/VP8 4Kx2K@30fps video playback
 * multi-format FHD video decoding, including MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, H.264. WMV9/VC-1, etc
 * H.265/VP9 1080p@30fps video playback (by software, from A80 Datasheet page 11)
 * H.264 HP/VP8 4Kx2K@30fps video capture
 * 3840x1080@30fps 3D decoding, BD/SBS/TAB/FP supported
 * 3840x1080@30fps 3D encoding
 * RTSP, HTTP, HLS, RTMP, MMS streaming media protocols
 * Display:
 * dual-channel LVDS 1920x1080@60fps
 * RGB LCD 2048x1536@60fps
 * 4-lane MIPI DSI 1920x1200@60fps
 * 4-lane eDP 2560x1600@60fps
 * HDMI 4K output (unknown frame rate !????)
 * Camera:
 * Integrated parallel and MIPI I/F sensor
 * Supports 5M/8M/12M/16M CMOS sensor
 * Supports 8/10/12-bit YUV/Bayer sensor
 * Memory:
 * dual-channel DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR2, up to 8GB
 * Raw NAND with 72-bit ECC
 * eMMC V4.5
 * Connectivity
 * 2x USB Host, USB 3.0/2.0 Dual-Role (host/device)
 * Ethernet MAC
 * 4x SPI, 7x TWI, 7x UART
 * 4x SD/MMC
 * HSIC
 * PCM/I2S
 * PMIC:
 * AXP806 and AXP809
 * Embedded Controller:
 * ARM Cortex-M3 (to be verified)
 * Audio:
 * unknown
 * OS:
 * unknown

= Rumours =
 * empty

= Documentation =
 * A80 Datasheet v1.0 (PDF, 43 pages, 2014-03-17)
 * A80 Datasheet Revision 1.0 0404.pdf (same as the previous file)

= Register guide =

Wiki
These pages have been put together by scraping information from the SDK.
 * A80/Memory map
 * A80/Clock Control Module

= Software =

Original SDK

 * SDK (2GB full tarball)
 * SDK (300MB reduced tarball)
 * SDK (unpacked)

The SDK contains customized sources for U-boot, Linux, Android and buildroot.

SDK Content

 * Linux Kernel: A80/lichee/linux-3.4
 * Buildroot: A80/lichee/buildroot
 * U-boot: A80/lichee/brandy/u-boot-2011.09
 * Various Allwinner tools: A80/lichee/tools

Building images with the SDK
On Debian the following 32bit packages have to be installed. sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6 lib32z1

To build an image use wget http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/SDK/A80/A80_SDK_20140728_lichee.tar.gz tar -xzf A80_SDK_20140728_lichee.tar.gz cd lichee/ ./build.sh config ./build ./build pack

Boot0
Boot0 initializes the DRAM, basic clocks and loads U-boot from NAND or MMC. There is no boot1 on A80. Boot0 directly loads U-boot.

The sources can be found under https://github.com/allwinner-zh/bootloader/tree/master/basic_loader/boot0

Unfortunately you need the ARMCC (proprietary ARM C compiler) to compile the source code.

Binaries of boot0 can be found in the SDK under lichee/tools/pack/chips/sun9iw1p1/bin/

Android
Preliminary link to a Cubitech download for A80 kernel including a Android sun9i image OptimusBoard Boot Log (Android)

fastboot (under windows)
The optimus/pcduino8 board has the fastboot feature in its bootloader. Once booted into it, the device will identify itself as: VID:1F3A PID:1010 Under windows, no driver can be found, but it is however possible to force the installation of the fastboot driver.

To make fastboot work from a PC, we need to change the fastboot code because Google hard-coded its partners into the fastboot source code. To be able to use fastboot we need to add 0x1F3A as Allwinner and compile this. A prebuilt windows binary is available here.

=Android device repository= https://github.com/skoperst/android_device_sunxi_kylincommon https://github.com/skoperst/android_device_sunxi_kylinoptimus

Cubietech Kernel
The cubietech guys have a kernel available.

GPL violations
As is usual, there are the libnand and libisp violations. But with A80, Allwinner decided to step this up a notch, or two, or all the way to 11.

Kernel

 * modules/nand/sun8iw1p1/libnand_sun8iw1p1
 * modules/nand/sun8iw3p1/libnand_sun8iw3p1
 * modules/nand/sun8iw5p1/libnand_sun8iw5p1
 * modules/nand/sun8iw6p1/libnand_sun8iw6p1
 * modules/nand/sun9iw1p1/libnand_sun9iw1p1
 * drivers/devfreq/dramfreq/mdfs/mdfs_sun8iw3p1.code Dram frequency scaling binary, run from SRAM while SDRAM is inaccessible.
 * drivers/devfreq/dramfreq/mdfs/mdfs_sun8iw6p1.code Dram frequency scaling binary, run from SRAM while SDRAM is inaccessible.
 * drivers/media/video/sunxi-vfe/lib/lib_mipicsi2_v1
 * drivers/media/video/sunxi-vfe/lib/lib_mipicsi2_v2
 * drivers/media/video/sunxi-vfe/lib/libisp
 * drivers/media/video/sunxi-fd/lib/libfd Face detector.
 * drivers/usb/sunxi_usb/usb3/libusb300 USB3.0 support.
 * drivers/arisc/binary/arisc_sun9iw1p1.bin Cortex-M3 core for deep power save modes.
 * drivers/video/sunxi/disp/de/lowlevel_sun9iw1/libdsi DSI support for display.
 * drivers/video/sunxi/disp/de/lowlevel_sun9iw1/libedp eDP support for display.
 * drivers/video/sunxi/hdmi/aw/libhdcp HDCP support for HDMI.
 * drivers/input/touchscreen/aw5x06/libAW5306
 * drivers/input/touchscreen/gslx680new/gsl_point_id_20131111
 * modules/aw_schw/libschw
 * arch/arm/mach-sunxi/pm/standby/super/resume/resume1.code
 * arch/arm/mach-sunxi/pm/standby/standby.code
 * drivers/net/ethernet/sunxi/eth/sunxi_libgeth

U-boot

 * nand_sunxi/sun5i/libnand-sun5i
 * nand_sunxi/sun8iw7/libnand-sun8iw7
 * nand_sunxi/sun8iw8/libnand-sun8iw8
 * nand_sunxi/sun8iw6/libnand-sun8iw6
 * nand_sunxi/sun7i/libnand-sun7i
 * nand_sunxi/sun9iw1/libnand-sun9iw1
 * nand_sunxi/sun8iw9/libnand-sun8iw9
 * nand_sunxi/sun8iw1/libnand-sun8iw1

= Devices =

Devices are slowly becoming available, here are some of the announced ones:
 * Board CubieTech Cubieboard 8
 * Board pcDuino pcDuino8
 * Tablet Onda Onda V989 Octa Core A80T 9.7 Inch Retina Screen RAM 2GB Android Tablet PC 32GB
 * Board OptimusBoard (created by Merrii for Allwinner, is sent to selected users by Allwinner to test the A80).

= See also =
 * A31

=References=

= External links =
 * Product Page

some more rumors before A80 release
 * ARM A15/A17 CPU comparison