Re: Oversimplification

On 3 Jun 2021, at 09.15, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-arm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-Jun-03 08:46:47 +0200, Milan Obuch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'll second Milan's followup. I have a 4GB RockPro64 with the
>>> dual-SATA PCIe card and am quite happy with it. It also supports
>>> both USB-3 and USB-C, though I haven't experimented with either.
>>> 
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity - do you mean SATA card from pine64.org shop? Was
>> some extra steps required to make it work? Could you share relevant
>> lines from dmesg output?
> 
> Yes, this was the pine64.org card - I've build a PineNAS, though I'm
> still trying to work out how to set it up the way I want.  The card
> doesn't need any special configuration.  Note that the RockPro64
> doesn't support booting from SATA.

If you install u-boot to the SPI you can boot from any media, SATA/NVMe/USB/SD/MMC.

I have patches for the pinebook pro that also works for the rockpro64 at:

https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/PinebookPro/ <https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/PinebookPro/>

YMMV.

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Søren Schmidt
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"So much code to hack, so little time"

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