allwinner h5/nanopi-neo2 anyone?

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 2 May 2018, at 16:17, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 15:54:05 +0300
> Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto: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.
ok, re-read, and i guess something got lost in the translation :-)

> 
>> 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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