Re: How to boot FreeBSD installed on the sd card on the Khadas Edge-V instead of Android

Klaus Küchemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
indeed seems that Khadas provides some equivalents to
rkdeveloptool ( standard tool for Rockchip)
..so,yes, in short :

-connect the board to your other machine where you have rkdeveloptool(or whatever tool) installed
-put the board into MaskRom mode
- erase/flash spi/emmc as you wish & as described by your chosen tool/vendor

that`s it…

—example: —
assuming the current unwanted u-boot currently sits  on the spi & you want to erase the spi …:
the Command is : 'rkdeveloptool ef‘
.. and so on and so forth
— ---

Regards
K.

> Am 07.07.2025 um 01:15 schrieb Mario Marietto <[email protected]>:
> 
> I have no idea what "rkdeveloptool" should do. 
> 
> Let's say that I want to install FreeBSD into the eMMC. This seems to be the tutorial to follow :
> 
> https://khadas.github.io/linux/edge/InstallOsIntoEmmc.html
> 
> So. First of all,I read "Upgrade Using a USB-C Cable". So,I presume that I should attach the usb-c cable to my Linux workstation. And what should be the usb-c port that should be used on the khadas board ? the usb-c port that I use to power on the board or the other one ?
> 
> Later,it says that "there are two commands that can be used to burn linux/images: burn-tool and rk-burn-tool"
> 
> ok. I will use rk-burn-tool to install FreeBSD,using this command :
> 
> $ rk-burn-tool -i /mnt/KHADAS/FreeBSD/edge-freebsd-aarch64-13.0-release-20210613.img
> 
> Is this the correct procedure,in your opinion ?
>  
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM Klaus Küchemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> $ rkdeveloptool -h
> 
> ---------------------Tool Usage ---------------------
> Help: -h or --help
> Version: -v or --version
> ListDevice: ld
> DownloadBoot: db <Loader>
> UpgradeLoader: ul <Loader>
> ReadLBA: rl  <BeginSec> <SectorLen> <File>
> WriteLBA: wl  <BeginSec> <File>
> WriteLBA: wlx  <PartitionName> <File>
> WriteGPT: gpt <gpt partition table>
> WriteParameter: prm <parameter>
> PrintPartition: ppt  
> EraseFlash: ef  
> TestDevice: td
> ResetDevice: rd [subcode]
> ReadFlashID: rid
> ReadFlashInfo: rfi
> ReadChipInfo: rci
> ReadCapability: rcb
> PackBootLoader: pack
> UnpackBootLoader: unpack <boot loader>
> TagSPL: tagspl <tag> <U-Boot SPL>
> 
> > Am 07.07.2025 um 00:38 schrieb Klaus Küchemann <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > you’ll need rkdeveloptool 
> > ( or whatever Khadas equivalent tool if they offer one) …
> > But as it seems no one here owns an Khadas Edge-V you have to try yourself
> > 
> > Good luck , 
> > Regards
> > K.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Am 07.07.2025 um 00:12 schrieb Mario Marietto <[email protected]>:
> >> ... nothing happened anymore....
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mario.
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