Ah, I see. The links mentioned above didn't work because I was using a VPN. Thanks for the hint!
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Thomas Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks! I overlooked the state of the NAND driver. > > > On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 19:43 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Hi Thomas. > > > > [cc'ing the FreedomBox list - assuming discrete post was accidental] > > > > Quoting Thomas Thorpe (2017-04-18 17:45:13) > > > Wondering what the issue may be with the 4 gig NAND version? I was > > > about to buy one. If there's a good reason not to, please save me > > > from > > > myself! :) > > > > To boot from NAND, both U-boot and Linux need a driver for the > > controller chip on the board to access it. > > > > Debian (and FreedomBox) uses mainline U-boot and Linux. > > > > Olimex LIME/LIME2 boards rely on the Allwinner A20 SoC to access > > NAND. > > > > Driver for A20 SoC to access NAND is not yet in a usable state: > > http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_NAND_Howto > > > > Details too geeky for me seemingly also covering U-boot: > > http://linux-sunxi.org/MTD_Driver > > > > > > Just avoid that board - pick a non-storage-glued-on board or the > > eMMC > > board instead! > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > - Jonas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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