Orange Pi One

[Milan Obuch]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:57:43 -0600
Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 22:45 +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:01:25 +0200
> > Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:
> >   
> > > OK, so yesterday I solved this puzzle - it was stupid pilot error
> > > (my
> > > ubldr.bin was not built with fdt support), after fixing it I made
> > > a test today - building SD image from scratch. It is succesfull
> > > now, so
> > > it's time to do kernel hacking. u-boot-orangepi port needs some
> > > review
> > > and cleanup before submitting into port repository, but anybody
> > > interested could write me for more details.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Milan  
> > 
> >  FYI I've just commit support for pinctrl in my github repo (along
> > with orangepi-one dts from uboot).
> >  I'll look at SMP and USB this weekend.
> > 
> >  For the u-boot port, do not submit it. Uboot > 2015.04 cannot be
> > compiled with CONFIG_API and net support, this means no netboot.
> >  I also have some port here : 
> > https://github.com/evadot/u-boot-freebsd-port
> >  I use the orangepi-pc port for my orangepi-one (orangepi-one config
> > is commited in -HEAD uboot only).
> >   
> 
> Did you mean 2016.04?  I'm doing netbooting on other (non-allwinner)
> boards with 2015.07 and 2015.10.
> 
> If there is an older mainline uboot that does work right, or a vendor
> fork in a github repo, we can just use that in the port, there's no
> special reason to track the tip of the mainline uboot tree in our
> ports.
> 
> -- Ian
>

In my port I used 2016.01, AFAIK minimum with orangepi support. I
did not find any vendor uboot tree. Frankly I see not much use for
netboot for this kind of board - you must prepare micro SD with SPL,
uboot, ubldr, kernel and binaries, for netboot you would need SPL and
uboot... this still means micro SD. For any practical purpose I can
imagine boot from SD/MMC is just enough.

Milan