Hi Danny, thanks for your insightful comments and starting work on uboot!
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:11:36AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > If you do use SATA, you still need to put U-Boot on SD or the Flash. U-Boot > has SATA support so it can load Grub etc from the hard drive. Their argument is that you may as well use USB, with USB-3.1 in the future. I am more surprised by the absence of ethernet in EOMA68. > The Allwinner A20 is quite slow by today's standards. Not Raspberry Pi slow - > but maybe 4 times as fast as it. Compiling useful things take a long time > (read: Linux kernel takes days to compile). However, I think it's more > trustworty than the usual x86_64-nobody-knows-what-it's-doing - so I still > compile things directly on it, if possible. Did you try installing Guix on it? This should work and allow you to use binary substitutes for armhf, I think. Andreas
