Orange Pi One

[Russell Haley]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:
> 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.

The cubieboard (Allwinner) u-boot seems to use the mainline denx code
with some significant patches. The cubieboard2 just references the
original cubieboard.

Russ