Awesome. I preformed these steps, but I haven't attached a Serial device to it yet.
I'll continue testing further after I hook this up to serial On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-11-26, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Please enable FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO > > Thanks for taking a stab at it! > > > Built a test package for you, should be available here: > > deb http://cascadia.debian.net/~vagrant/debian UNRELEASED main > > Install u-boot-sunxi:armhf from there, which has nanopi_neo included (in > fact, all other builds are disabled). > > > To test, you could use debian-installer's daily images: > > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ > > Download firmware.none.img.gz and partition.img.gz, and then something > like (just like it says in the README*): > > zcat firmware.none.img.gz partition.img.gz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 > > > Then, reading /usr/share/doc/u-boot-sunxi/README.Debian, you can install > the nanopi_neo u-boot image: > > dd if=/usr/lib/u-boot/nanopi_neo/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 > bs=1024 seek=8 > > > Then you ought to be able to see u-boot load on the serial console, and > if you're lucky, boot into debian-installer. You may need a USB network > adapter to get very far... > > > If the u-boot bits at least work, I'll be happy to add it to the > package, and add you to our list of testers. A rough guide to testing is > available here: > > https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot > > > Hmmm, now that I've written this email, some of it would be generally > useful to add to the wiki page... > > > live well, > vagrant -- :wq
