Re: install attempt on olimex a64 sd card

nia <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:48:58 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 04:16:22PM +0800, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> I think it uses sunxifb and the problem is failed to activate endpoint.
> How about booting with u-boot's dtb for testing?

Indeed, deleting the dtb directory from the sd card's fat32 partition
then booting with "boot netbsd nomodeset" results in a working
framebuffer - even Xorg works.

This is:
U-Boot 2022.04 (Jul 10 2025 - 15:09:03 +0000) Allwinner Technology

dmesg

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nia/olimex-a64-nomodeset-uboot.txt