Re: Questions about the building process (Olimex lime2)

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:15:50AM -0300, Jared McNeill wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> >With 8.0 there are too many discrepancies (hence my questions) to sort out
> >for the beginner I am what the source of the problem is (for example, I
> >used a a10-olinuxino-lime u-boot---because it was what was in pkgsrc and I
> >thought that with compatibility it could load on the a20---and it didn't
> >boot---and then the question was: is it a hardware, a firmware or a
> >software problem? Did I already fry the board? Does the missing lime2 dtb
> >cause the problem? Etc.).
> 
> NetBSD's sunxi port was transitioning from static config to dts when 8.0 as
> branched. Unfortunately, the A20 SoC stuff didn't get moved over in time. To
> use a dtb, you'll need to run -current with the GENERIC kernel.
> 

Yep, I'm cross-compiling from current now and I have seen that
indeed what I was looking for is in current and was not in 8.0,
quite a bit of reorganization having been made.

Best,
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