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How do you bootstrap the thing? Kernel support is rarely the primary issue with SOCs.
by deelowe 8y ago
How do you bootstrap the thing? Kernel support is rarely the primary issue with SOCs.
- rjsw 8y agoThe Allwinner SoCs will load U-Boot from a SDcard.
- floatboth 8y agoFrom SPI flash too. I have a tiny pinout board with a winbond chip hanging off of a bunch of wires from an Orange Pi PC, U-Boot loads from there and network boots FreeBSD. +1 SD card freed! :D
- exikyut 8y agoA photo of that wouldn't go astray on here, I don't think.
- floatboth 8y agoThere's one already on the sunxi wiki: https://linux-sunxi.org/File:Xunlong_Orange_Pi_PC_with_improvised_SPI_flash_shield.jpg https://linux-sunxi.org/File:Xunlong_Orange_Pi_PC_with_impro... Mine looks almost the same
- deelowe 8y agoInteresting. Wonder why there's someone above complaining about how much of a PITA it is.
- megous 8y agoThey probably haven't upgraded their knowledge about mainline Linux support in the last 4 years or so. It improved a lot! There's also a pretty good, in some areas even better support from some BSDs.