Re: pinebook status update (20190709)

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:44:13PM -0400, Ron Georgia wrote:
> Can I assume I simply download http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/aarch64/pinebook/netbsd and replace the /netbsd? I don't see a boot.cfg, so I am assuming the boot process on arm is a little different than x86.

The Pinebook uses u-boot which loads the sun50i-a64-pinebook.dtb and
/efi/boot/bootaa64.efi from the FAT partition.  The latter will then
boot /netbsd from the FFS partition.  Unless something really major
has changed it should be sufficient to just replace /netbsd.  If you
want to make sure, download the new kernel as /netbsd.new, then
interrupt the countdown when booting by pressing space and type 
"boot /netbsd.new".  If everything works, mv /netbsd /netbsd.old and
mv /netbsd.new /netbsd (and if something breaks you can still "boot
/netbsd.old").


  Harold