Orange Pi One

[Milan Obuch]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:28:20 +0800
Erich Dollansky <erich at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:24:14 +0200
> Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:
>
> > today I got this cheap board. After verifying it works with provided
> > linux based image I am trying to put FreeBSD on it. I would like to
> > understand boot process, but I did not find much info yet.
> >
> > Analysing image I see there are two partitions, first one being FAT
> > despite gpart telling both partitions are linux-data... and it seems
> > there are just two files important, script.bin and uImage in root
> > directory.
> >
> > As both files are binary, there is nothing more to reveal from
> > cursory view and I am going to look for more details on
> > www.orangepi.org page, just would like to know if someone already
> > did something. If yes, please let me know - I have no problem
> > building kernel and userland binaries, but first I need to get a
> > way to load kernel...
>
> I think, all you want to know is u-boot. Sources for it are available.
> Just ask your search engine where to find it.
>
> Erich

Well, I am going to investigate /sysutils/u-boot-* ports for some
guidance - I think this should be a bit easier for me and, probably,
helpfull a bit for others if I succeed. Basically you are right - this
board uses u-boot, so I need to learn a bit more about it.

Milan