Orange Pi One

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 15:18 -0700, Russell Haley wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
[...]
> > Nope, netbooting is not a feature to easily throw away.  You may not
> > need it, but imagine someone using a board as a distributed computing
> > component.  They might have a rack with literally thousands of units,
> > and they're not going to want to update each sdcard individually;
> > they'll have sdcards with just u-boot and ubldr that rarely need
> > updating, and everything else will be nfs.
> > 
> 
> I'm merely playing with the SDIO driver and the need to move the sd card
> back and forth is very tedious. I don't imagine REAL kernel development
> being any fun without netboot.
> 
> Userland application development has also been nearly unbearable having to
> move SD cards back and forth as well.  Small things are okay, but when I
> have to compile anything or add libraries and dependencies it's very
> tedious. I can't wait to get and NFS rootfs working for my hummingboard (I
> suppose I could just set up NFS for my application, but I have other
> motives).
> 
> 
> With the amazing rate at which you are progressing on your port, I imagine
> that you are actually a robot so you can switch sd cards very fast so that
> it's not an issue for you. Tee Hee!
> 
> 
> Russ

Wait a sec... netbooting and nfsroot should already work just fine on a
hummingboard.  It works on my cubox, and on the motherboards we build
at $work, both of which use the same uSOM modules as a hummingboard.

-- Ian