The A64 was one of the chips whose clock controller support got stuck in mailing list hell for over a year. Currently that's planned for 4.10, basic stuff like

The A64 was one of the chips whose clock controller support got stuck in mailing list hell for over a year. Currently that's planned for 4.10, basic stuff like Ethernet, USB and SD card support is still pending though: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort I imagine they must be using a ton of patches on top of mainline to make that work.