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The Allwinner SoCs will load U-Boot from a SDcard.
by rjsw 8y ago
The 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.