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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:40:40 -0700
From:      Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>,  Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com>
Subject:   Re: Orange Pi One
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:49:16 +0200
> Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:51:09 -0700
> > Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:28:20 +0800
> > > > Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:24:14 +0200
> > > >> Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@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.
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > > >> 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
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > after some struggling I am able to produce working u-boot. With working
> > serial console, I see following when powering up the Orange Pi:
> >
> > U-Boot SPL 2016.01 (Apr 17 2016 - 10:18:49)
> > DRAM: 512 MiB
> > Trying to boot from MMC
> >
> >
> > U-Boot 2016.01 (Apr 17 2016 - 10:18:49 +0200) Allwinner Technology
> >
> > CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I)
> > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > WARNING: Caches not enabled
> > MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
> > reading u-boot.env
> >
> > ** Unable to read "u-boot.env" from mmc0:1 **
> > Using default environment
> >
> > In:    serial
> > Out:   serial
> > Err:   serial
> > Net:   No ethernet found.
> > starting USB...
> > No controllers found
> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> > Booting from: mmc 0 ubldr
> > reading ubldr
> > ** Unable to read file ubldr **
> > =>
> >
> > So now it looks like I casn use neither ethernet nor USB boot, but as
> > long as SD is readable, which looks like it is, and after 'saveenv' on
> > u-boot prompt, it reduces a bit to
> >
> > U-Boot SPL 2016.01 (Apr 17 2016 - 10:18:49)
> > DRAM: 512 MiB
> > Trying to boot from MMC
> >
> >
> > U-Boot 2016.01 (Apr 17 2016 - 10:18:49 +0200) Allwinner Technology
> >
> > CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I)
> > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > WARNING: Caches not enabled
> > MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
> > reading u-boot.env
> > In:    serial
> > Out:   serial
> > Err:   serial
> > Net:   No ethernet found.
> > starting USB...
> > No controllers found
> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> > Booting from: mmc 0 ubldr
> > reading ubldr
> > ** Unable to read file ubldr **
> > =>
> >
> > I think now it's time to build ubldr, kernel and world for this board.
> >
> > This is just to let interested parties on partial success, if somebody
> > would like get some more details, just let me know. Just be prepared
> > for some dirty tricks used to overcome some issues :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Milan
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>
>  You should have a working kernel with this:
> https://github.com/evadot/freebsd/tree/h3
>  The code used to work before the clk bit were commited, I haven't tested
> since.
>  This doesn't support SMP as I haven't looked at the cpu power clamp yet.
>
>  And detailed on how you had uboot compiled could always be intersting :)
>

Congrats and great work! I am also very curious on how you got u-boot up so
fast. There are specific build options that are required for u-boot to load
ubldr (or so I've been told), but you may know this already. If you haven't
said anything I will look for the info in my email tonight.

Russ



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