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Date:      Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:44:05 +0200
From:      Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Orange Pi One
Message-ID:  <20160414064405.202e4eef@zeta.dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20160414062820.7b907ba9@X220.alogt.com>
References:  <20160413232414.3a37907e@zeta.dino.sk> <20160414062820.7b907ba9@X220.alogt.com>

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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.
> >
> > 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.

Milan



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