On Sun Dec 25, 2022 at 12:45 PM CET, Bernhard Ernst wrote: > Hello everybody, > I am Berni from Germany and quite new here in the mailing list. > I use several Raspberry 4B (8GB) with OpenBSD since a couple of years. > No problems, rock solid systems. > > But now I 've got 2 pcs. BananaPi M5. I made some tests with Debian and > ArchLinux images and all teste were fine. > However the intention is to run OpenBSD on the Bananas. Reading this > mailing list I found nothing about BPi-M5 and OpenBSD, but some > information about running OpenBSD on Odroid C4/HC4. The Odroid shall be > quite similar to the Banana, an so I tried the hints about the Odroid: > > I wrote the OpenBSD image (miniroot72.img, install 72.img) and then the > formware u-boot.bin.sd.bin onto the sdcard, connected the uart - but > nothing happend. All 3 leds on the Banana light on, but no byte came > over the uart. > Test the uart connection with the debug-uart of the Banana brought some > readable hard ware info. > > My questions are: Is there any experience with the BPi-M5? Was it the > wrong way to try the Odroid u-boot? Or am I riding a dead horse with my > BPi-M5?
Odroid C4/HC4 are Amlogic G12/SM1 which is S905X2. BPi-M5 is S905X3. Eg. on XDA forums you can find that people had problems to run Linux stuff on BPi-M5 too in 2021 so question is what is different in that X3. > > Thx & regards > Berni
