Peter I understand losing the "warm and fuzzy" feeling. I lost mine too in mid-June when I spent 12 days in hospital and have no recollection of the first 4 days in hospital, but that is a story for another day. :-)
I just sent an email to several OpenBSD developers to ping them regarding interest in MangoPi h/w. 73 diana KI5PGJ On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:42 AM Peter J. Philipp <p...@delphinusdns.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just so we don't lose the warm fuzzy feelings around this. Diana do you > want to give me your paypal address so I can transfer the 30 EUR to > you? I'm very excited about this, particularily because the mango pi > comes out of china. > > Here is some interesting read I googled the other day: > https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/07/19/how-china-is-building-an-open-national-chip-plan-around-risc-v/ > > Risc-v is really taking off! I do hope that sifive can give us > something of value, because I heard about this Milk-V computer giving > Intel/Sifive a run for their products. > > https://liliputing.com/milk-v-computers-feature-up-to-64-risc-v-cpu-cores/ > > That said I'm hoping on invest in another risc-v computer by next year. > Support for it will probably lack and I'll run linux on it for a while > perhaps. > > Best Regards, > > -peter > > On 7/19/23 03:40, deich...@placebonol.com wrote: > > I'm going to reach out to a few folks who I see are doing riscv64 > > specific development. I realize they might not want to take on yet > > another h/w design. > > > > g.day > > > > > > On July 18, 2023 3:14:18 PM MDT, Mike Larkin <mlar...@nested.page> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 02:02:45PM -0600, deich...@placebonol.com > > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Great. I don't know who would be interested, so I'd wait to let > > them speak up before ordering anything. -ml > > > > 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. -- - Past hissy-fits are not a predictor of future hissy-fits. Nick Holland(06 Dec 2005) To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt(1918)
