On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:14:47PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:09:02PM +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> > lör 2014-09-13 klockan 15:03 +0200 skrev Luc Verhaegen:
> > 
> > > I am trying to get the latest cubietruck image installed to nand so i 
> > > can finally go investigate why our sunxi-3.4 kernel is killing recent 
> > > androids.
> > 
> > I would guess because our NAND driver is a different version, and
> > Allwinner NAND FTL driver reformats the flash when it detect a version
> > mismatch.
> > 
> > 
> > But.. back on the topic of Livesuit. Looking at livesuit v306 from
> > cubieboard.ort the driver version differ significantly based on if your
> > distribution is dpkg or rpm based. For rpm distros it ships diver
> > version 0.4 but packaged with version 0.5 in the rpm version, and for
> > dpkg distros it ships driver version 0.5 packaged as version 0.5.
> > 
> > 0.5 version attached.
> > 
> > But I never understood why there is a kernel driver at all for this.
> > libusb does the job nicely from userspace.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Henrik
> 
> Hah! That's it!
> 
> I was using 0.4... Let's see whether this indeed fixes it, and then it's 
> time to turn this into a git repo and update the wiki.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

So yes, this solved it. I am now, as usual, formalizing this into a git 
repo and providing the relevant documentation.

I hope our nand driver does not completely reformat the flash, and 
instead just kill the partition table or so. If not, i will have to 
disappoint several people.

Luc Verhaegen.

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