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| author |   jsg <jsg@openbsd.org> | 2016-07-23 16:22:17 +0000 |
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| committer | jsg <jsg@openbsd.org> | 2016-07-23 16:22:17 +0000 |
| commit | e3b182c737625a185b73d01d466b3de6840806bc (patch) | |
| tree | 8c41cf52b0835f1e8076306f25f74f3edc3daa1e | |
| parent | Back out the dhclient BPF change. There are DHCP servers out there which (diff) | |
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Some armv7 machines are shipped with linux images that run USB OTG ports
in client mode and provide serial access to a getty and networking.
Make it clear that a real serial console that can interact with the
firmware is required.
Suggested by and wording tweaks from ian@
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/armv7/prep | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/armv7/prep b/distrib/notes/armv7/prep index c9738dd950b..4743c22be9d 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/armv7/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/armv7/prep @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.9 2016/07/09 07:19:52 jsg Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.10 2016/07/23 16:22:17 jsg Exp $ Please be aware that OpenBSD support for this platform is far from complete. +To perform an installation you must be able to interact with the serial +console of the machine. USB OTG ports such as the one found on the +BeagleBone will not function as a console. You need to be able to +interact with the firmware on the console. Often this requires a 3.3V +TTL level adapter connected to pins or a header on the board. + Firmware which provides an EFI interface with a Device Tree Blob (DTB) file is required to boot. In most cases this is provided by images of U-Boot 2016.07 or newer on SD/MMC devices or in SPI flash. If the |