Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Søren Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28 Mar 2021, at 21.48, Klaus Küchemann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, at least u-boot2021.01 has all the needed support to boot a rockpro64 or pinebookpro from nvme/sata/usb/sd/mmc/net.
>> If you put u-boot into the SPI-flash it will boot from any of the above media.
>> 
>> --
>> Søren Schmidt
>> [email protected] / [email protected]
>> "So much code to hack, so little time“
>> 
> 
> yes, I used 2021.04-rcXX( master, self-compiled)… the strange thing on Rock960-board was that it needed some reboots 
> until nvme was scanned correctly in u-boot-prompt.
> Thean it boots FreeBSD straight up and then hangs on mountroot> ( because there’s no /dev/nda0 or /dev/nvmeXX).
> I presume an electrical issue since it was once(only once) detected by adding nvme_load=„YES“& nvd_load=„YES“ in rc.conf. 
> The u-boot patch related to nvme on that board also was based on a voltage-change .
> … I`ll post some debug-output the next hours… (`guess pcie has mem alloc issue from dmesg)…
> 
> Anyone successfully booting from nvme on any aarch64-board ??


Yes, both my rockpro64’s and my pinebookpro boots of NVMe just fine, there is one caveat though, for it to work it needs to be a NVMe device that uses as little power as possible (I use older Intel 660 IIRC uses only 3.5W max), otherwise the HW cant cope..


Søren Schmidt
[email protected] / [email protected]
"So much code to hack, so little time"



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