Orange Pi One

[Russell Haley]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>
Issues are mine. Just taking longer than expected...
Russ