allwinner h5/nanopi-neo2 anyone?

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Wed, 2 May 2018 15:54:05 +0300
Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> 
> 
> > On 2 May 2018, at 15:09, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2018-05-02 10:48, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >>> On 2 May 2018, at 09:10, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >>> On 2 May 2018, at 08:59, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:10:44 +0300
> >>> Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I just got one (actually 2) of these, any hints as to how I can run
> >>> FreeBSD on it?
> >>> it?s a H5 allwinner.
> >>> thanks,
> >>> danny
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> >>> Hi,
> >>> I have one too I think, it's just a matter of doing a u-boot ports
> >>> for
> >>> it, you can take the pine64 or orangepi-pc2 as example.
> >>> Then just take the latest snapshot and overwrite u-boot or roll you
> >>> own sdcard image.
> >> great, ill give it a spin.
> >> thanks,
> >> danny
> >> his is what I did:
> >> used crochet to build an image based on pine64.
> >> installed u-boot-orangepi-pc2 instead of pin64
> >> and success!
> >> FreeBSD booted!
> >> cheers,
> >> danny
> > 
> > That's really wrong, you are using wrong data to initialize the board and also passing wrong dtb to the kernel.
> > It worked because both boards are using the same kind of dram (and at the same speed).
> 
> you are correct, on the other hand, the pine64 u-boot did nothing, this one at least seems to work,
> even the ethernet, though there are several things missing, like there is no real/available memory message.

 You misunderstood me, what I wanted to say is take the u-boot
ports for pine64 or orangepi-pc2 as template and do a new
u-boot-nanopi-neo2 ports.

> Also, this u-boot is booting efi, and the treatment of the dtb is new to me :-(

 That doesn't change much for dtb, it's just that by default when
booting EFI we use the dtb provided by u-boot (if any).

> So, is there a u-boot for this board or should I use the one from linux/debian?
> cheers,
> 	danny
> > 
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> --
> >>>> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
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