Re: pinebook status update (20200118)

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Jan 26, 2020, at 7:03 AM, Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 06:44:14PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote:
>> So this image works on a Pinebook Pro?  Got one about a week ago, I've
>> got 2 new SD cards coming tomorrow.  Getting tired of Linux.
> 
> The Pinebook Pro uses U-Boot and (I guess) the unmodified image will
> not boot on a Pinebook Pro.  I suppose if you build
> pkgsrc/sysutils/u-boot-pinebook-pro and dd that to the image, it will
> work.

I don't think you can just dd it to the image.  Whatever the procedure is, though, it should be pretty straightforward to add an installboot.plist for the Rockchip u-boot packages that make installing the loader into the image trivial.

> 
> Alternatively, https://invisible.ca/arm/ has a netbsd-9 image.
> 
>  Harold

-- thorpej