Orange Pi One

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:44:05 +0200
Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:28:20 +0800
> Erich Dollansky <erich at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
I did not know that it is also in the ports tree. This makes it much
easier for you to work with it.

Erich