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We can get around this by using gdisk to set the location of the beginning of the partition table ( fdisk’s GPT handling doesn’t have this functionality).
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The SoC expects the boot code to start 8 KiB from the beginning of the SD card, but this overlaps the GUID partition table (GPT) by default. Let’s have U-Boot hand off to GRUB to do the actual boot management! But U-Boot has a party trick on supported platforms: UEFI booting. If you’re fancy, you might have the option to boot a backup kernel. Write a boot script, it points to a kernel and initrd at specific locations and boots them. Traditionally, U-Boot works more like lilo did back in the day. Once the requirements are satisfied, here’s my compilation process, assuming cross-compiling from an amd64 environment:ĬRUST_DIR = "/home/ryan/git/crust" ATF_DIR = "/home/ryan/git/arm-trusted-firmware" UBOOT_DIR = "/home/ryan/git/u-boot" Please see instructions and requirements for each note particularly that crust requires a (as of this writing) custom RISC (not RISC-V) cross-compiler. U-Boot has everything needed for booting, and works beautifully, but you’ll need to compile it yourself. This post was originally written in 2018, but I came back in 2021 and updated a bunch of it based on my last few years of experience. It’s also specific to the H5 model, as that’s the only one I have. What follows is by no means a how-to more like a stream of observations. I posted my findings on the Kickstarter comments section to help people at least verify their hardware is working until official images were produced.īut I didn’t want to leave it at that.
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HDMI video (and presumably audio), USB and serial all worked, but Ethernet does not (but a random USB Ethernet adapter I added worked fine).
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I did some digging and found the ALL-H3-CC H5 is very similar to Orange Pi PC 2, which had a supported image. The comments on the Kickstarter page were understandably confused, with people trying to use that image on their H5 and getting no video or activity other than a red power LED. Further confusing the matter is the model name for all three is “ALL-H3-CC”.Īrmbian initially didn’t have an image for the H5, just for the H2+/H3. The H5 is effectively a completely different and incompatible SoC to the H2+/H3. They offer 3 models: a 512MiB Allwinner H2+ and a 1 GiB Allwinner H3 (the H2+ and H3 are effectively identical 32-bit SoCs), and a 2 GiB 64-bit Allwinner H5 (which is what I got). Here’s where the company sort of dropped the ball, in my opinion. When it arrived, I started looking at what to do with it. a heatsinked SoC chip to be in a certain place won’t be compatible). The hardware is slick and good quality, and indeed it fits in standard Raspberry Pi cases (though the chip layout isn’t identical, so cases which expect e.g. That target was missed since, well, it’s a Kickstarter project, and I eventually forgot about it, until it unexpectedly showed up in my mailbox Friday. I backed the 2 GiB RAM model, which was expected to be fulfilled in January.
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Last year I found a Kickstarter for the Libre Computer Tritium, a series of Allwinner-based ARM boards in a Raspberry Pi 3-compatible form factor. (8 cores, 64 GiB RAM, and a modest 250GB SSD per compute cartridge. These days the new hotness is HP Moonshot, and the specs on those are humbling even by normal server standards. Sadly, Calxeda went out of business, but we still have a few clusters left. Most of those were killed in favor of Calxeda blades, which looked to be the future at the time. Up until about 5 years ago they were mostly assorted vendor devel / eval boards, and we maintained an internal wiki page for dealing with them, named WhichArmsSuckTheMost. We’ve got a fair number of ARM systems at work. More Raspberry Pis than I know what to do with. My first ARM Linux installation was on a Linksys NSLU2 NAS. Linux on ARM hardware has been a bit of a hobby of mine for years now.
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