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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:04:46 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUBOX snapshots working?
Message-ID:  <20170926200446.c188fda613df2ffb894b1ff3@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <201709261732.LAA21422@mail.lariat.net>
References:  <201709260339.VAA16701@mail.lariat.net> <1506435673.73082.129.camel@freebsd.org> <201709261732.LAA21422@mail.lariat.net>

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:32:21 -0600
Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote:

> One would think that sauce for the goose would be sauce for the
> gander. But is this particular Cubox now useless with FreeBSD?
> And if so, why? It is not an unusual model. The Cubox does work
> if I flash their "Ignition" startup software (which is used to
> bootstrap by downloading various OS images) to the same
> Micro SD card.
> 
> --Brett Glass

 The problem isn't FreeBSD related, it's U-Boot related.

 You could test build mainline u-boot just to confirm that it isn't
something due to our ports.

> At 08:21 AM 9/26/2017, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> >I just DLed and booted that snapshot on my Cubox-4i without any
> >problems.  As near as I can tell, the only difference is you've got the
> >dual-core chip and mine has the quad.
> >
> >The same u-boot should work for both.  At least, that was the case when
> >using the vendor-provided u-boot; the images are now built from
> >mainline u-boot.  The output you provided does show that it detected
> >the right kind of chip and amount of ram, so I think it should support
> >both flavors of cubox.
> >
> >-- Ian
> 
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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