Yes the output I gave you in my first post is a Rock64 4GB with a 64GB
eMMC running Arch Linux.  I can get you all the info you need when I
get back to the house.

Nige

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 7:55 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Many thanks Nigel, but nope.
>
> This is the output:
>
> C`Ek�kh[j�C4Mkj_C6�n�4��Vj-[mC`�d[�6��K��RV%���<U�5TU��]JU�BVU��꭫U�U���U�U    
>   ]��UեUQR����(�(��U*U�U��L�\� �ꨊ婪����ժ�)U�UQQ           
> Q�ժw�UUQQQ���U�(J�*�(�U*�e�E���
>                                                                               
> U�                                                                            
>              �WE���i���+�                                                     
>                                     �
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
>                          
> �UU(�UU�i+�*��*���Uj�*�E�*�J���BZ���U��.�ծ���������(���U��UTQQ���i-���U��UTQQ�%��(��u,�U��
>
> Not good....
>
> Benson, i would contribute to Pagure..... if something works!
>
> Actually I've found boot images of Rock64 inside fedora sdcard but I can't 
> made them working.
>
> Nigel, do You have a Rock64 sbc? Does Your serial console works during SPI 
> boot?
>
>
> Many thanks to both.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Agharta
>
>
>
> Il 13/11/19 04:49, Benson Muite ha scritto:
>
> On 11/13/19 2:29 AM, Nigel Sollars wrote:
>
> Serial console / uart setup,
>
> 1500000 8n1
>
> Thanks Nigel.
>
>
> Nige
>
> Agharta, Please let us know if it works, and if so can you contribute to the 
> Pagure repository?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:08 PM agharta agharta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Benson,
>
> No, unfortunately seems not working.
>
> I've tried with seek (16348, 64, 512, etc). No luck.
>
> I think the problem is related how to boot images are builded.
>
> Should I write sidbloader.img?
>
> Following Your link about ARMv8, i see at row 3:
>
> dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/spl.img of=$MEDIA seek=64; sync; sleep 5
>
> But spl.img is not available in usr/share/uboot/ in my sdcard.
>
> So, I still searching over web.
>
> Meanwhile, did You known that serial console speed of
>
>
>
> Il 12/11/19 07:46, Benson Muite ha scritto:
>
> Hi Agharta,
>
> Thanks for the update. Responses below. Hope you are successful.
>
> Benson
>
> On 11/11/19 7:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Benson,
>
> You helped me a lot!!!
>
> Following Your suggestion, I've investigate over $TARGET and $MEDIA.
>
> After writing sdcard with pine64-lts, inside usr/share/uboot/ (of sdcard) i 
> can see rock64-rk3328 (my sbc), rockpro64-rk3399 and many other sbc not 
> listed into arm-image-installer folder 
> (/usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/)!!!!!!!!
>
> So, rock64 is really supported by fedora (31, minimal, aarch64)!!!
>
> Another interesting thing: if I create a file called rock64-rk3328 into my 
> /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/ and set --target=rock64-rk3328, 
> arm-image-installer executes IT!
>
> So, next step: I've copied pine64-lts into rock64-rk3328.
>
> One question: rock64-rk3328 folder does not have sunxi-spl.bin, but a file 
> called idbloader.img. Should I 'dd' it insead of sunxi-spl.bin?
>
> Following this link seems yes 
> http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option
>
> Thanks, this seems helpful.
>
> Seems needed to add some extra stuffs too (seek):
>
> dd if=idbloader.img of=sdb seek=64
> dd if=u-boot.itb of=sdb seek=16384
>
> So, script become as follow:
>
> # write uboot
> echo "= Writing idbloader.img for $TARGET ...."
> dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/sidbloader.img of=$MEDIA bs=8k seek=64; 
> sync
> echo "= Writing u-boot FIT image for $TARGET ...."
> dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/u-boot.itb of=$MEDIA bs=8k seek=16384; 
> sync; sleep 5
> # set console for allwinner
> SYSCON=ttyS0,115200
>
>
> Looks similar to what is at:
>
> https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/socs.d/Rockchips-ARMv8
>
> https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/socs.d/Rockchips-ARMv7
>
> Might need to change seek value. I do not have that board, so cannot try this 
> out, but hope it works. If it does work, can you contribute the script back? 
> I believe additions are also needed here:
>
> https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer
>
> https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/boards.d
>
> Tomorrow I'll try!
>
>
> Thanks a lot for Your support.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Agharta
>
>
>
> Il 11/11/19 16:21, Benson Muite ha scritto:
>
> Hi Agharta,
>
> I used an earlier Fedora release on Banana pro (after first using Fedora 
> combined with a different kernel). It worked ok, but took a bit of time for 
> the Arm image to support Banana pro.
>
> On 11/11/19 4:04 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Benson
>
> a) Yes, but I can't specify Rock64 as --target parameter.
>
> "A number of Pine64 boards are supported, but you might use as a bass to get 
> something for rock64" Can You explain me how? Is it possibile without manual 
> recompilation, etc...? (see why in b) and c) )
>
> There was a message earlier on the list that support had been added for rock 
> 64. Thus you might be able to take the configuration for Pine64 and modify 
> that for Rock 64, though can also wait. After installing the arm image 
> installer, as indicated at 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installation in a terminal I 
> can type
>
> $ls /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/
>
> to get a listing of supported boards. Typing
>
> $more /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/pinebook
>
> gives settings for Pinebook, which are
>
> # write uboot
> echo "= Writing sunxi-spl.bin for $TARGET ...."
> dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/sunxi-spl.bin of=$MEDIA bs=8k seek=1; 
> sync
> echo "= Writing u-boot FIT image for $TARGET ...."
> dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/u-boot.itb of=$MEDIA bs=8k seek=5; 
> sync; sleep 5
> # set console for allwinner
> SYSCON=ttyS0,115200
>
> The commands for pine_h64, pine64_plus and pine64-lts are the same, so you 
> might try these for your Rock 64.
>
> b) Yes, an Armbian kernel....but I'd like to use a 'standard' kernel.
>
> Ok.
>
> c) Yes, is possibile, but i still prefer a community delivered rpm (and 
> maintained).
>
> Noted. Thanks for using and reporting where work is still required. Sorry 
> cannot be much more help at present.
>
> Thanks again for Your support.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Agharta
>
>
>
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