Re: Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS
Robert Swindells <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:14:53 +0100
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"Jonathan A. Kollasch" <[email protected]> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 03:37:43AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 09:16:54 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: >> >> > Aside from getting a upstream-style u-boot for it, and a >> > sufficiently compatible device tree, I'd think it should just work. >> >> I guess, I should be able to re-use the /boot from their linux image, >> shouldn't I? (I'm still very uncomfortable around u-boot). > > Not necessarily; the Linux-sourced Device Trees do not have stable > bindings, so you really need a DT that matches the kernels ability to > interpret the DT. For NetBSD that means matching the version of > DTs already in our tree, and supported by the relevant drivers. Now that we have branched NetBSD-11, I think it would be a good time to update the device tree sources. Then fix any drivers that don't work. Trying to backport device tree changes for individual boards is too hard.