Re: pinebook status update (20190122)

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 1/23/19 3:16 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Yes indeed, how to put u-boot on a machine is tricky (and sometimes requires
> vendor tools).

I tried to build the corresponding u-boot package, which proceeded to 
install a cross-build (???) toolchain with no less than gcc 8.2. The 
build died half way through, and rm'ing the objdir must have taken half 
an hour...

> The other part is simple though:
>
>   - you create a msdos partition for EFI (our images use 80 MB, which is plenty)
>   - on that partition you create EFI/BOOT and put /usr/mdec/bootaa64.efi there,
>     and copy the full dtb tree (easiest to grab from a full image) there.
>   - you create a NetBSD partition for the rest of the SD / eMMC, extract
>     all wanted sets and don't forget to
> 	cd dev && sh MAKEDEV all
>
> Then reboot and it all should work.

Thanks! I'll try that, next time.  ;)

Cheerio,
hauke

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