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
> >>
> >>
> >>
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