Hi all, It seems that no one really cares about AW pack tools enough to document at least a part of it. By Allwinner pack tools I mean various Linux/Windows proprietary SW coming from AW, like "dragon", "update_mbr", "update_23" etc.
Since I'm on a good way to figure a part of this out, I'd like to add it to the linux-sunxi.org if possible, so that everyone can use it, and not lose days and days finding various SDKs and BSPs only to figure that half of it is not working... Actually the biggest problem is that none of this is documented and these programs usually do not give you any version or help. And there are at least 5 different "dragon" versions I've tried - some of them work with image.cfg + sys_partition.fex, while some of them only seem to use more advanced image.cfg format and not really needing sys_partition.fex. I've also noticed that there are different versions of update_mbr for A10 and A20 - one seems to only put softw311 marker, while the other one works with softw411 marker. Also some of them can pack by only following symbolic links to rootfs, while others actually need rootfs.fex in the same folder. Mixes in SDKs can include anything - I've found combos like 'new dragon + old update_mbr', which mess up always and produce unreadable images... sunxi-bsp set of tools on the other hand looks very broken to me, as there is no A20 support per say - there are script files for A20 boards, but allwinner-tools used by sunxi-bsp only produce images suited for A10 (softw311) and maybe A13 (these are the only two in the eFex configuration files)... I would also like to point out that most info regarding MBR structure is now well known (for A20 - boot1 source code contains wboot_mbr.h header which has the packed MBR layout), so I think update_mbr can already be deprecated and changed to a better suited open-source version. If I had any +time, I'd happily write this out and try it... As I said, wiki pages on linux-sunxi are just making things worse by not really explaining any of this and yet somehow making everything even more complicated (just look at Software section under http://linux-sunxi.org/LiveSuit_images - I have no idea what is the point of that section). So I'd just like to know how I can (or if I may in fact) change/append to linux-sunxi.org? Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
