> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Seyfried <[email protected]> > Sent: 15 December 2020 15:38 > To: Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: nd <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Newbie questions getting a not yet supported board going > (bananapi > m2 zero) > > On 14.12.20 08:52, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Stefan Seyfried <[email protected]> > > >> I linked hardware:boot:staging u-boot (where you already enabled > >> bananapi-m2-zero) to home:seife:bananapi, additionally the > >> openSUSE:Factory:ARM JeOS image and this image now boots from SD card > >> \O/ :-) > > > > Great news! Could you push your changes to openSUSE:Factory:ARM/JeOS > please? > > But, why you did not name your JeOS image bananapim2zero? > > I just followed the example of the Banana Pi M2 plus which is called > > sinovoipbpim2plus (sinovoip is the manufacturer IIUC), and thus named it > sinovoipbpim2zero :-) > > So I went for being consistent with other banana pi's It would probably make > sense to rename both to "bananapim2{zero,plus}" > because I doubt too many people will search for sinovoip. OTOH as long as > links in > the wiki are pointing to the right image, everything will be fine. I > personally don't > care too much.
IIRC, the name was from the u-boot config, which may have been renamed afterwards. > > >> I'm looking into the missing wifi and ethernet now. > > > > There is no Ethernet, according to > > http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M2_ZERO > > Are you sure you are running a Bananapi M2 zero? > > Yes, there is. There's just no connector on the board. But 4 wires and a > RJ45 socket will give you an ethernet port: > > http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI- > M2_ZERO#how_to_use_zero_10.2F100_Ethernet > > This is a case of "I need to patch the dtb to get this going". > Unfortunately, just using the dtb from armbian made the ethernet appear (I > have not yet soldered the connector, so I cannot tell if it would have > worked), > but killed WiFi :-) (armbian uses linux-sunxi kernel so probably has other > changes > to the device tree that conflicts with the upstream kernel). > > So I'm back to the original question: Can I easily specify which dtb file to > load in > grub? So that I can try alternate ones without having to resort to "rip the > card out > of the bananapi, stick it into a PC and fix it again" in case the modified > dtb fails to > boot? Yes, you can add the following line in grub (press 'e' key to enter edit mode: devicetree /boot/dtb/your.dtb Cheers, Guillaume > > Best regards, > > Stefan > -- > Stefan Seyfried > > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over > public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ openSUSE ARM mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] List Netiquette: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette List Archives: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]
