Re: install attempt on olimex a64 sd card

[Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 03:20:01PM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 06:04:44PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > > Plug in the board with HDMI connected to a DVI adapter.
> > > u-boot shows its display then loads the NetBSD boot loader.
> > > Everything seems fine. Then the NetBSD boot loader disappears
> > > and the screen turns off, never turning back on.
> > > 
> > > What's going on? I have console=fb set, NetBSD should be
> > > using the framebuffer.
> > 
> > Most likely it is using serial console but the reason
> > will be difficult to determine without hooking up the serial
> > console. It could be an issue with the device tree for example.
> 
> This is true.
> 
> Full boot output:
> 
> https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8914
> 
> without nomodeset:
> 
> [   1.0000040] sunxidrm0: failed to activate endpoint: 19
> [   1.0000040] sunxidrm0: reserved 40 MB DRAM for CMA
> [   1.0000040] sunxifb0 at sunxidrm0
> [   1.0000040] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
> [   1.0000040] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
> [   1.0000040] [drm] Initialized sunxi 1.0.0 20190123 for sunxidrm0 on minor 0
> [   1.0000040] sunxidrm0: initialized sunxi 1.0.0 20190123 on minor 0

I think it uses sunxifb and the problem is failed to activate endpoint.
How about booting with u-boot's dtb for testing?

-rxg