Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:44:05 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Allwinner dtb overlays on CURRENT. Also, flashrom SPI! Message-ID: <1532875445.61594.113.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1532548163.59286.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> References: <1532548163.59286.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology>
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On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 22:49 +0300, Greg V wrote: > Hi, > > One thing I have noticed with CURRENT on an Orange Pi PC: since we're > using device trees imported from Linux, some drivers are not accessible > out of the box. > > So I wrote a couple overlays: > > Thermal sensor: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/162 > > SPI: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/166 > > But not everyone would figure out how to make and even just use > overlays… > > (if anyone is wondering: place them into /boot/dtb/overlays and add a > list of them (filenames including extension) to /boot/loader.conf like > so: fdt_overlays="sun8i-h3-sid.dtbo,sun8i-h3-ts.dtbo,sun8i-h3-spi.dtbo" > — and reboot) > > Can someone commit these overlays / add more for other SoCs maybe? > > P.S. I also wrote spigen support for flashrom: > https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom/pull/53 > With this, I can flash and verify a Winbond W25Q32.V flash chip from my > Orange Pi! :) Why in the world would you use spigen instead of the normal mx25l spiflash driver and a simple dd to/from /dev/flash/spiN ? Hrm. Maybe because mx25l, and most SPI-related stuff, isn't documented. My to-do list knows no bounds. -- Ian
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