renky Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 https://packages.debian.org/sid/armhf/u-boot-sunxi/filelist Orange pi one is not on the list. Any solutions? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 10 hours ago, renky said: Any solutions? "Official" Debian support for those ARM boards is minimal and its based solo on upstream sources which are not in a perfect condition. What is wrong with this solution: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-one/ ? If you still insist to DIY, get sources, get the right compiler, compile, write u-boot to the SD card and hope it works ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 I have asked debian to get orange pi one on the list. Orange pi 0 is on the list. Are the 2 computers not almost the same? Quote What is wrong with this solution: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-one/ ? It is about getting a free software system confer free software foundation on the orange pi one. To my knowledge getting a free software system on an arm computer requires uboot. The more mainboards are able to run a free software system the better. Also if all devices or graphics are not supported. In this case it is also about getting a free software freedombox.org on the computer. Quote If you still insist to DIY Beyond my skills. I asked on the freedombox email list. One person had a try but got discouraged because the orange pi one is not on the https://packages.debian.org/sid/armhf/u-boot-sunxi/filelist list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 5 hours ago, renky said: It is about getting a free software system confer free software foundation on the orange pi one. You were already explained how to transform Armbian into the radical free OS - it's solvable in few seconds: apt purge iozone3 armbian-firmware Armbian Stretch is more matured, fixed and supported as "pure" Debian Stretch. It comes with extra utilities and its fine-tuned to get the most out of it. 5 hours ago, renky said: Beyond my skills. Plain Debian for ARM bords is also less user-friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 Quote You were already explained how to transform Armbian into the radical free OS No, that is not how I read the post. I read it as there were many pieces of non free software in armbian and I would have to identify them myself. Which I am unable to do. Please clerafy if I install armbian stretch on the orange pi one and then run apt purge iozone3 armbian-firmware there will be no piece of non free software on it? How does it boot? Uboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 14 minutes ago, renky said: No, that is not how I read the post. I read it as there were many pieces of non free software in armbian and I would have to identify them myself. Which I am unable to do. Since we are not paying attention to this free issues seriously it is hard to be completely certain. We have many other problems than dealing with this in detail. Those few packages are known, while the rest is known that it's free ... but unless someone makes a study on this ... we will not put a label "Stallman free" (besides this and that) Yes, we use u-boot bootloader but certain boards (Amlogic, Samsung, ...) uses closed source 1st stage loader available only as a blob, and that is certainly not free software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 Thank you. Quote Since we are not paying attention to this free issues seriously it is hard to be completely certain. What has to be avoided is that I believe a system is free software but it is not. Because you say that to your best knowledge the system is free software I will test it and not forget there is a possibility that the system contains non free software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 On Armbian Xenial I ran sudo apt purge iozone3 armbian-firmware After restarting I opened several programs. I cannot say the computer was slower. If above command removes all non free software cf. free software foundation then the computer runs good on free software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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