Andreas Fc3a4rber wrote:

> Just to be clear, this is not just about adding a wlan interface.
> Since you're the one with the board, I pointed you to look at
> JeOS-nanopineo as template to create a JeOS-nanopineoair image - don't
> expect the image for another board to just work for you. LEDs are one
> of the most common things to differ between boards, compared to serial
> ports.

I've been trying to do this more or less from scratch - I figure that'll
give me a better overall understanding of what's involved.  I'll try to
sum up where I am at the moment, I would much appreciate someone
correcting my mistakes/misunderstandings.

I started out here:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_on_your_ARM_board, "Bootstrapping
a kernel using openSUSE chroot".  

I figured from there it couldn't be too difficult getting u-boot
installed, and ROOT+BOOT partitions updated and maybe have a somewhat 
working system.  I'm still waiting for the ttl serial interfaces to
arrive :-) 

u-boot - this is installed in a known place in the beginning of the SD
card, and the board BIOS knows where to look for it.  Is that correct? 

u-boot - does not seem to be platform specific?  I've looked at u-boot
in OBS, all the variations link to u-boot, where the spec file has a
few platform-specific customizations.  It seems to me that nanopi-neo
ought to work with nanopi-neo-air too? 

dtb file - this is a hardware description needed because embedded
platforms typically don't offer the interfaces for the OS to discover
the hardware itself.  The dtb file is part of the kernel tree. 
I've found a kernel patch for adding a dtb for the nanopi-neo-air. It
applied cleanly to 4.10.1.

When booting, how is the correct dtb file loaded? 


thanks
Per


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