My UART chip just showed up, so I had a chance to actually try this out tonight!
So, hot off the presses: Success! I did need to borrow the .dtb, but it booted and I saw d-i! However, it appears to not like the USB or Ethernet port (tried a USB adapter, and it didn't like that either). saw an Ubuntu image, tried booting that, and that brought up a sane userland with network connectivity. It's likely a matter of just teaching d-i about the right firmware /me digs paul On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debain.org> wrote: > On 2016-11-27, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Awesome. I preformed these steps, but I haven't attached a Serial > > device to it yet. > > > > I'll continue testing further after I hook this up to serial > > Looks like you may also have to borrow a .dtb from linux 4.9.x: > > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=experimental&; > section=all&arch=armhf&searchon=contents&keywords=sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb > > Just copy that onto the debian-installer media in the dtbs > directory. Not sure if it'll work, but if it does, you might want to > request a backport of it to the linux kernel packages. > > > Happy testing! > > > live well, > vagrant > > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@aikidev.net> > wrote: > >> On 2016-11-26, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > >>> Please enable FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO > >> > >> Thanks for taking a stab at it! > >> > >> > >> Built a test package for you, should be available here: > >> > >> deb http://cascadia.debian.net/~vagrant/debian UNRELEASED main > >> > >> Install u-boot-sunxi:armhf from there, which has nanopi_neo included (in > >> fact, all other builds are disabled). > >> > >> > >> To test, you could use debian-installer's daily images: > >> > >> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD- > card-images/ > >> > >> Download firmware.none.img.gz and partition.img.gz, and then something > >> like (just like it says in the README*): > >> > >> zcat firmware.none.img.gz partition.img.gz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 > >> > >> > >> Then, reading /usr/share/doc/u-boot-sunxi/README.Debian, you can > install > >> the nanopi_neo u-boot image: > >> > >> dd if=/usr/lib/u-boot/nanopi_neo/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin > of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8 > >> > >> > >> Then you ought to be able to see u-boot load on the serial console, and > >> if you're lucky, boot into debian-installer. You may need a USB network > >> adapter to get very far... > >> > >> > >> If the u-boot bits at least work, I'll be happy to add it to the > >> package, and add you to our list of testers. A rough guide to testing is > >> available here: > >> > >> https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot > >> > >> > >> Hmmm, now that I've written this email, some of it would be generally > >> useful to add to the wiki page... > >> > >> > >> live well, > >> vagrant > > > > > > > > -- > > :wq > -- :wq
