Hi Mike I've volunteered to coordinate a purchase of Mango Pi to get them into OpenBSD developers working on riscv64 platform.
It has been awhile but I used to facilitate getting h/w into OpenBSD developers hands on a semi-regular basis. 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. >
