[Arm-dev] orange pi pc2

Tue May 19 10:17:36 UTC 2020
sam at samuels.id.au <sam at samuels.id.au>

On 2020-05-15 16:12, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 15/05/2020 05:33, Sam via Arm-dev wrote:
>> hi i couldnt find a search tool for the mailing list, so apologies if 
>> it
>> has been already discussed but i cannot find a howtofor the orange pi 
>> pc2.
>> 
>> i see it as a supported device but not sure what i need to do to get 
>> it
>> to boot.
>> 
>> i used rufus and install OS and tried:
>> 
>> CentOS-Userland-7-aarch64-generic-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz
>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz
>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RootFS-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz
>> 
>> and none of them boot.
>> 
>> I am assuming i am to load the specific uboot for the said device but
>> not sure how?
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp#How_to_Install_CentOS_Userland_armv7hl
> has all the pointers for the uboot setup after you've used dd to put 
> the
> image on sd card
> 
> So as you can see, there are two examples as some boards just need one
> .bin for uboot and some need two, so it depends on your board, but
> following the instructions about having the uboot-images-armv7 pkg
> installed/exploded on disk should give you pointers about your board
> 
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Thanks Fabian,

I managed to get it to work, so good to be on an (old friend) RPM based 
OS again.

FWIW, i also took these two as reference points on further research with 
the latter i used the sp1 precompiled binary from there.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Orange_Pi
https://gitlab.com/vinibali/orangepi_uboot/-/tree/master

Cheers,
Sam.