allwinner h5/nanopi-neo2 anyone?

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 2 May 2018, at 16:36, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> 
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>> 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 :-)


ok, made a u-boot for the nanopi-neo2, but now I don’t have ethernet!  it did have one when I used the orange-pc2
win some, lose some :-(

this is the current console:


U-Boot SPL 2018.03 (May 02 2018 - 16:32:12 +0300)
DRAM: 512 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2018.03 (May 02 2018 - 16:32:12 +0300) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner H5 (SUN50I)
Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO 2
DRAM:  512 MiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Failed (-5)
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

>>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
Loader path: /boot/loader.efi

  Initializing modules: UFS
  Load Path: /\efi\boot\bootaa64.efi
  Load Device: /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/USB(0x6,0x0)/HD(1,0x01,0,0x403b,0x1ffe0)
  Probing 3 block devices.....* done
   UFS found 1 partition
Consoles: EFI console  
Command line arguments: loader.efi
Image base: 0x58ebe040
EFI version: 2.70
EFI Firmware: Das U-Boot (rev 0.00)

FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
(Wed May  2 11:16:07 IDT 2018 danny at pe-44)
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> 
>> 
>>> 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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>>>> -- 
>>>> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
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>> -- 
>> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com <mailto:manu at bidouilliste.com>> <manu at freebsd.org <mailto:manu at freebsd.org>>
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