Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:23:46 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Subject: Re: Orange Pi One Message-ID: <1461277426.1191.30.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuRK3EXbQNTviBcZ_AgKQuuAsmvTjwMKpvO5S%2Bi8e57ppg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160413232414.3a37907e@zeta.dino.sk> <20160414062820.7b907ba9@X220.alogt.com> <20160414064405.202e4eef@zeta.dino.sk> <CABx9NuQWatjAhA1oL8EtUbv5kSbG8qX-KB%2BGBr9PTqVs4fnMNg@mail.gmail.com> <20160418094916.10dc9ae8@zeta.dino.sk> <20160418174918.33d3d19e4105eb737d17b122@bidouilliste.com> <CABx9NuQaFEuZmDtJ=Rie5XC3iQDqTEBX6ZRiWxNfEa_BomTUcA@mail.gmail.com> <20160418210108.4047c526@zeta.dino.sk> <20160419092012.0ad4ad2d@zeta.dino.sk> <20160419093408.2f6d8d6472b09298f1e08ecb@bidouilliste.com> <20160419095358.351c74b3@zeta.dino.sk> <1461075584.1232.13.camel@freebsd.org> <20160419170932.3fe2b709@zeta.dino.sk> <20160421220125.00286858@zeta.dino.sk> <20160421224541.daec4614d2e5c88959a3d8e2@bidouilliste.com> <1461272263.1191.23.camel@freebsd.org> <20160421231326.1bf9a11f@zeta.dino.sk> <1461276209.1191.26.camel@freebsd.org> <CABx9NuRK3EXbQNTviBcZ_AgKQuuAsmvTjwMKpvO5S%2Bi8e57ppg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 15:18 -0700, Russell Haley wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > [...] > > Nope, netbooting is not a feature to easily throw away. You may not > > need it, but imagine someone using a board as a distributed computing > > component. They might have a rack with literally thousands of units, > > and they're not going to want to update each sdcard individually; > > they'll have sdcards with just u-boot and ubldr that rarely need > > updating, and everything else will be nfs. > > > > I'm merely playing with the SDIO driver and the need to move the sd card > back and forth is very tedious. I don't imagine REAL kernel development > being any fun without netboot. > > Userland application development has also been nearly unbearable having to > move SD cards back and forth as well. Small things are okay, but when I > have to compile anything or add libraries and dependencies it's very > tedious. I can't wait to get and NFS rootfs working for my hummingboard (I > suppose I could just set up NFS for my application, but I have other > motives). > > > With the amazing rate at which you are progressing on your port, I imagine > that you are actually a robot so you can switch sd cards very fast so that > it's not an issue for you. Tee Hee! > > > Russ Wait a sec... netbooting and nfsroot should already work just fine on a hummingboard. It works on my cubox, and on the motherboards we build at $work, both of which use the same uSOM modules as a hummingboard. -- Ian
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