[[559] - GPIO Support for H2/H3 boards with a unified WiringPI library in a neat little package]

Hi, whatever choice is made, it is very good initiative.

from my 3 points of view:

for learning:  the best gpio python2 AND 3 lib is imho  https://github.com/vsergeev/python-periphery, it is *clean*, pythonic and very portable.

and for lowmem boards do not underestimate micropython (python3 like) unix port which can use any C gpio lib easily with libffi.

 

for hacking:  wiring* code is not so clean    . But maybe give a chance to wiringX rewrite https://github.com/wiringX/wiringX/tree/rewrite

 

for time critical:  really *none* of the above .

 

 

[NanoPi NEO air usb hid gadget]

Hi, @twixx sunxi roadmap says no support for H3 until mainline 4.12, and best you can have with nightlies is 4.11,  actually only g_mass_storage  / g_serial / g_ether are  working ( i would avoid g_serial it is quite easy to lock )  on legacy and the rest won't ever be fixed if i refer to https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/593 .

[Orange Pi PC PXE boot (Boot Over Network)]

@B.K.O. you may have a problem with that sole adapter pair because FEL use micro usb otg port *only* so you need to add some more cable ...

 

FEL+AOE is far more efficient on lan compared to FEL+NFS/ANY, it would be nice to have ata over ethernet module provided.

 

does PXE stack support sanboot or  iPXE chainload ?

[[Misc. / systemd removal] Removing systemd from Jessie]

following the wiki link offered in this thread, guessing that probably any GRUB/GRUB2/GRUB4DOS section would not apply to U-Boot , boldly ignoring the pam related red warning  without a password less login on uart i edited /boot/boot.cmd

 

setenv bootargs "root=${rootdev} rootwait rootfstype=${rootfstype} ${consoleargs} ........................

by

setenv bootargs "init=/lib/sysvinit/init root=${rootdev} rootwait rootfstype=${rootfstype} ${consoleargs}  ..................

did:

mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr

 

 

i hope armbian-config will offer a way to do that more easily. giving the choice is important for aging guy who can't remember systemctl stuff.