Re: Orange Pi 5 weirdness

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Am 26.08.2024 um 15:40 schrieb Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>:
> 
> 
> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> I have NetBSD-current on the Orange Pi 5 *almost* working. Display and 
>> NVME are doing fine. However, there are a few showstoppers:
> 
>> 1. I boot from an SD card that has EDK2 for Orange Pi (version 0.9.1, from 
>> late 2023) and a NetBSD installation.
> 
> How does EDK2 work when built for this platform, does it pass a complete
> device tree to the kernel as well as providing the ACPI tables?

That’s a setting in the setup. EDK2 can provide a device tree, ACPI tables, or both.


> I am planning to get an Orange Pi 5 Plus soon, I would want it to have
> a device tree so that I could use the GPU.

On the Orange Pi 5, the simple framebuffer works out of the box, even in 4K. I don’t think there is an accelerated graphics driver for it.

— 
Benny