Hello,
I'm getting some troubles booting FreeBSD on Banana Pi. I wrote simple script that creates bootable SD card image for FreeBSD OS.
#!/bin/bash cd /root/banana rm /root/banana/banana.img truncate -s 940M banana.img mdconfig -f banana.img -u0 gpart create -s mbr md0 gpart add -b 1m -s 64m -t fat16 md0 gpart set -a active -i 1 md0 newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/md0s1 mount_msdosfs /dev/md0s1 /mnt cp /usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BANANAPI/kernel /mnt cd /usr/src/sunxi-tools echo "fatload mmc 0 0x40200000 kernel; go 0x40200100" > boot.cmd /usr/src/u-boot-bananapi/tools/mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d boot.cmd boot.scr cp boot.scr /mnt umount /mnt mdconfig -d -u0 cd /root/banana # Original Banana Pi U-boot loader #dd if=/usr/src/u-boot-sunxi/spl/sunxi-spl.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=8 #dd if=/usr/src/u-boot-sunxi/u-boot.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=40 # Lemaker's U-boot loader dd if=/usr/src/u-boot-bananapi/spl/sunxi-spl.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=8 dd if=/usr/src/u-boot-bananapi/u-boot.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=40
The script output:
root@freebsd:~/banana # bash prepare_boot.sh md0 created md0s1 added active set on md0s1 /dev/md0s1: 130888 sectors in 16361 FAT16 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) BytesPerSec=512 SecPerClust=8 ResSectors=1 FATs=2 RootDirEnts=512 Media=0xf0 FATsecs=64 SecPerTrack=17 Heads=255 HiddenSecs=0 HugeSectors=131053 Image Name: Created: Tue Aug 19 02:20:04 2014 Image Type: ARM Linux Script (uncompressed) Data Size: 55 Bytes = 0.05 kB = 0.00 MB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Contents: Image 0: 47 Bytes = 0.05 kB = 0.00 MB 23+1 records in 23+1 records out 24064 bytes transferred in 0.003972 secs (6058691 bytes/sec) 235+1 records in 235+1 records out 241544 bytes transferred in 0.003128 secs (77224557 bytes/sec)
Original Banana Pi U-boot loader output:
U-Boot SPL 2014.04-10704-gf625d1d (Aug 16 2014 - 23:44:23) Board: Bananapi DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 spl: not an uImage at 1600 spl: not an uImage at 80 ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
And Lemaker's:
U-Boot SPL 2014.04-10693-gf954935 (Aug 17 2014 - 21:41:27) Board: Bananapi DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 spl: not an uImage at 1600 spl: not an uImage at 80 ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
The only way it works is: # Cubieboard's 2 U-boot loader from FreeBSD Wiki dd if=sunxi-spl.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=8 dd if=u-boot.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=32
And according to https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/wiki "If using v2013.07 or earlier then the procedure is slightly different dd if=spl/sunxi-spl.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8 dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=32" but I'm using newer version.
I'm getting problems with addressing all available memory (0x40000000, size: 0x40000000 = 1024MB), I belive it's caused by Cubieboard's version of u-boot. The only way it works is 0x40000000 size 0x20000000 in kernel's memory addressing which is half of all available memory. So I have to use Cubieboard's 2 version of u-boot to start my board.
Cheers, TooMeeK