Re: ODROID C4

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Hi Jason --

The SoC (Amlogic S905X3) in the ODROID C4 is not supported by NetBSD at 
this time. At minimum you will need a driver for the clock and pin 
controllers. The dmesg from -current should give more details on what is 
needed.

Take care,
Jared


On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Jason Mitchell wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     I bought an ODROID C4 to play around with and to see if I could get 
> NetBSD running on it. I copied the u-boot code from M Armbian image and used 
> dd to copy it to the SD card then put the original MBR back in place.
>
>     9.0_STABLE hangs after the first line (the line that looks similar to one 
> below).
>
> 12079328+3840240+1542104 [585602+952008+696598]=0x1344238
>
>     NetBSD current (9.99.72) will boot but there are a ton of devices that 
> aren’t configured and no boot device is available. The choices are halt, ddb, 
> & reboot.
>
> Questions:
>
> a) Is there an easier way to update the u-boot code on an disk running 
> NetBSD? Can installboot do this?
>
> b) Are there any kernel options I can add to troubleshoot further?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason M.