That worked great, thank you! I was able to get the keyboard to work as well, but it seems there is a different bug where plugging in both a keyboard and mouse at the same time causes usb/kb to fail.
-Anant On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Bakul Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:01:53 PDT Anant Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 1. I'm trying to get a custom built kernel to boot but not having great > > luck, unfortunately. I got as far as "mk 'CONF=pi'" in /sys/src/9/bcm > > (those are the latest sources, correct?) which generated a 2M kernel > named > > 's9pi'. I added that to the FAT partition on the standard 9pi SD card > image > > and edited config.txt to point to it. Now, when I boot I see a rainbow > > pattern screen -- switching back to the 9pi kernel in config.txt makes it > > boot again. > > mk should've created 9pi and s9pi. Copy 9pi to the fat partition, not > s9pi. > > > What am I doing wrong? > > The RPi boot program doesn't know about plan9 executables. It > will just copy the bits from the kernel file specified in > config.txt at address 0x8000 and jump there. See 9/bcm/words > for some details. > > > 2. A couple of my keyboards don't work with the standard kernel on the SD > > card (the mouse works fine). Is /sys/src/omap/usbehciomap.c the right > place > > for me to start looking into adding support for them? > > This thread may help: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/ycok6NTCWCg > > Ideally you shouldn't need more than create a custom kbmap file. > >
