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Some questions (Keyboards, Joysticks, Autoboot...) May 2, 2022 23:00:52 GMT

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Post by Ratte on May 2, 2022 23:00:52 GMT

jj0: Thanks for the quick reply.
I basically do not care, the easiest way is welcome.
So far I have been playing around with version 1.7.6.b8.
For test purposes I downloaded version 1.9.1b6 (NL) today, the link for the English version does not work.
With which version did you introduce the possibility of firmware upgrade?
If I understand it correctly, with the upgrade of the firmware it is now possible, as with the OrangePi, to boot either from USB or NAND.
This would make the autoboot function (/etc/init.d/S95pcuboot) obsolete. You could now display all scenarios via the FakeUpgrade (start.sh) or via a direct USB boot.
The reason why I would like to boot a narrow Linux is that I would like to compile some things on the H3 and also need access to the internet.
Is it actually true that there are different sizes of the MAXI 128/256 MB?
Thank you very much.
Greetings
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Some questions (Keyboards, Joysticks, Autoboot...) May 3, 2022 7:45:39 GMT

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Post by jj0 on May 3, 2022 7:45:39 GMT

May 2, 2022 23:00:52 GMT Ratte said:

I'll leave that to spannernick to answer as he manages/develops PCUAE.

If I understand it correctly, with the upgrade of the firmware it is now possible, as with the OrangePi, to boot either from USB or NAND.
This would make the autoboot function (/etc/init.d/S95pcuboot) obsolete. You could now display all scenarios via the FakeUpgrade (start.sh) or via a direct USB boot.

If you install USB boot then you can boot any compatible Linux distribution. In theory this could also be used to run PCUAE at boot, but the current autoboot function works OK and I have the feeling that not many people want to install USB boot.

The reason why I would like to boot a narrow Linux is that I would like to compile some things on the H3 and also need access to the internet.

The easiest way (I think) to compile things for the H3 is to use a normal Linux PC (with qemu-user-static and binfmt installed), download e.g. Orange Pi PC Armbian Xenial and chroot (or systemd-nspawn) into it. This has the advantage that you have the CPU cores and RAM of the PC to speed up things. But if you want to compile things on the actual H3 hardware then you can also chroot into Armbian from the Maxi of course.

Is it actually true that there are different sizes of the MAXI 128/256 MB?

Not that I'm aware of - as far as I know all Maxi's (and Mini's) have the same amount of RAM, 256MB. Except mine as I had extra RAM soldered on.

Last Edit: May 3, 2022 7:46:06 GMT by jj0

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Some questions (Keyboards, Joysticks, Autoboot...) May 6, 2022 22:57:35 GMT

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Post by Ratte on May 6, 2022 22:57:35 GMT

Works now ... on the x86_64 notebook (win11) now runs an OrangePI-PC compatible DietPi-Linux.

The platform is compatible to "TheC64Maxi", which however has only 256 MB and no (W)LAN.

A good basis for software adaptations for the Maxi.

qemu-system-arm.exe 

-M orangepi-pc 

-m 1024 

-cpu cortex-a7 

-dtb boot/dtb/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb 

-kernel boot/vmlinuz-5.10.60-sunxi 

-initrd boot/initrd.img-5.10.60-sunxi 

-append "earlyprintk loglevel=8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x1c28000,115200n8 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1" 

-nographic 

-serial stdio 

-monitor none 

-drive file=DietPi_NanoPiNEO-ARMv7-Bullseye.img,format=raw,if=none,id=d1 

-device sd-card,drive=d1 

-net nic,model=allwinner-sun8i-emac 

-net tap,ifname=WinTAP

Additionally the OpenVPN package (freeware) had to be installed, or the TUN/TAP driver from the package.

Rename the network connections to WinTAP and WinTUN and activate the internet sharing with WinTAP in the physical connection.

And then off you go ...

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Some questions (Keyboards, Joysticks, Autoboot...)

Post by Ratte on May 2, 2022 23:00:52 GMT

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