Re: Orange Pi support

Adriaan de Groot <[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2021 00:23:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Organization	FreeBSD
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:25:09 CEST John F Carr wrote:
> It would be nice to have a support matrix showing Orange Pi models.  I made
> a list of models from the web site showing which SoC they use. 

This is good content for the FreeBSD wiki, https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm .. 
there are sub-pages there for e.g. AllWinner SoC and RockChip SoC, but also 
per board brand (e.g. Pine, Beagle) so there's precedent for having the tables 
two-ways.

> There are
> four model lines: AllWinner, Rockchip, RDA, and MediaTek.  I see there are
> u-boot packages for some AllWinner-based models.  I assume those work. 

Prrobably? I only added the H6 page recently, after checking one Pine board.

> I
> see no support for MediaTek processors in the kernel so I assume they do
> not work.  I assume the RockChip-based models don't work but could be made
> to work because CPU support is already in there for Pine.  

There's a Rock64 U-Boot (I think that;s the 3328) at least.

[ade] (who does not rise above the "hm, does this image boot at all" level of 
skill here)

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