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Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by subway on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:42AM (#14733649)
The H5 is a member of the sun50i family. It's a 64-bit CPU, so this generic image will never work. FreeBSD has done some recent work on the H5 though, so maybe that'll land in NetBSD soon.
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Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by bidouilliste on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:25AM (#14734456)
FreeBSD did not do recent work on H5, I would know as it would have been me :) But we should run on it without too much effort (I have hardware, now I need time)
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Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by subway on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:24AM (#14736748)
Oof, apologies. I'd have sworn I'd come across some H5 FreeBSD work recently, but clearly was mistaken.
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Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by jmcneill on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:29AM (#14734224)
I wouldn't say "will never work". H5 is a Cortex-A53 and NetBSD can boot these just fine in aarch32 mode. The RPI2 kernel for example supports all models (32- and 64-bit) of Raspberry Pi except for the original.
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