I can tell you I have disabled the SPI Flash ( 128mb iirc ) and give SPI control back to SPIDEV as I am using this board in conjunction with a 915Mhz LoraWan Concentrator / Gateway board IC980a
Nige On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:00 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many Thanks! > > Here my minicom output > > CTRL-A Z for help | 1500000 8N1 | NOR | Minicom 2.7.1 | VT102 | Offline > | ttyUSB0 > > > Thanks again, > > Agharta > > > Il 13/11/19 13:58, Nigel Sollars ha scritto: > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> arm mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > >> Fedora Code of Conduct: > >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > >> List Archives: > >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > >> > >> > >> > > -- “Science is a differential equation. 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