On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 11:56:51AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Hi *, > > I'm back for the moment. I was wondering who has a Allwinner D1 riscv64 SBC? > This is the Mango Pi SBC. > > I have one which has linux on it currently but I'm trying to boot OpenBSD on > it. But I'm fairly lazy and haven't done much with this lately. I can get > to the riscv64 loader but when it loads the kernel, it goes blind. So there > is more than just getting the GPIO pins configured which I think I have been > able to adjust. > > I use a QEMU-based riscv64 emulation to compile kernels which is slow but this > SBC isn't much faster either (1000 Mhz it claims). > > I use this u-boot directive to get into the boot loader: > > setenv bootobsd 'load mmc 0:1 0x4FA00000 > /boot/dtbs/5.19.0-1009-allwinner/allwinner/sun20i-d1-nezha-memory.dtb ; load > mmc 0:f 0x40080000 /EFI/OpenBSD/BOOTRISCV64.EFI ; bootefi 0x40080000 > 0x4FA00000' > > followed by a: > > run bootobsd > > I am unsure how to save this though in the u-boot itself. Any hints would be > appreciated. > > I think we need a specific riscv mailing list for this sort of stuff perhaps > it's too technical for misc. Regarding to the nostradamus stuff of someone > from chicago (Re: A couple of Questions) , check out "1st wave" and > "cade foster" on youtube (reruns), this will feed you more ideas. my personal > opinion is that time travel of information is possible, contributing to major > headaches when events get changed (for the prometheus seers). > > Back to "reality" I'm looking for a group of people to help getting the mango > pi working. I'm hampered by pride to ask knowledged people and these people > have their own directions and I don't want to bother their efforts. The more > we are the more we could possibly get something done. >
The best way to get that done is to get hardware in the hands of developer(s). Wishing on misc@ is likely not going to get anyone interested. Check the commit logs for people working in this area, reach out to them, and see if they are interested in helping. -ml
