Hi Peter

I don't have a lot of spare money lately, last week extensive car repair and 
the home air conditioner failed last week, however I can contribute funds for 
quantity 1 and maybe 2 Mango Pi.  Perhaps some one else can help too.

diana

On July 16, 2023 1:13:02 PM MDT, "Peter J. Philipp" <p...@delphinusdns.org> 
wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 06:25:50PM +0000, Mike Larkin wrote:
>> 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
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>Thanks.  This will take a bit, I'm in talks to get a new job soon, which will 
>put extra money in my pocket.  Then I may be able to get a handful of these
>perhaps.  Do you still keep tabs on Shivam, Mars, Brian, and Wenyan?  Are they
>still interested in riscv64 after the initial port with yours and Dales
>guidance?  I think I paid something like 30 EUR for a Mango Pi from AliExpress
>buying 4 would work but I can only do this when I have secured the job.
>
>Best Regards,
>-peter
>
>-- 
>Over thirty years experience on Unix-like Operating Systems starting with QNX.
>

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