On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 08:41:56AM -0600, deich...@placebonol.com wrote: > 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
OK you got me Diana, I'll pledge 60 EUR, I have some reserves. That should be enough for 2 Mango Pi's. So we have 3-4 Mango Pi's. Anyone else willing to put in some money? I don't know how to go about this best, should I pay my pledge to openbsdfoundation with the explicit request that this should go toward these? Or how would we escrow this? Does OpenBSD have the means of ordering from AliExpress? I still have an outstanding pledge to OpenBSD of 5 EUR, which I'll pay when or if OpenBSD 7.4 gets ED448 support. I'm really hoping it will go in before the release so that I can adjust my software accordingly for this year (my release is in November/December). Best Regards, -peter > 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. > > -- Over thirty years experience on Unix-like Operating Systems starting with QNX.
