DJWillis wrote: > Great to see some work on the firmware :). > > Has anyone ever looked at moving the base (well meta-squeezeos mainly) > to a newer base of OpenEmbedded as a metadata/build system? >
Hi, I tried differents approaches, in the past 5 years to upgrade the build system of the squeezeos. But without real success. I tried to use poky/yocto and change meta-squeezeos to match yocto changes I also tried to use buildroot, wich is maybe easier to use for this kind of work. I was able to build a rootfs but i was not able to boot the radio with it due to a too old kernel trying to execute recent libc. (FATAL: kernel too old) >From my point of view the main problem is that kernel 2.6.x used for i.MX is pretty old and without bumping to at least 3.10 it would be hard to get something working, and IMO the amount of work is too much for the benefit. And if we change for a recent kernel (which seems to be supported by NXP for the Squeezebox Radio and Squeeze Touch CPU) we will have to reverse all IO of the cpu, to generate a correct device tree for each hardware. (Schematics would be even better but i doubt that they are available :)) I think that the easier approach here is to rebuild the initial FW and bump specific package as it has been done for wpa_supplicant for example. DJWillis wrote: > > I looked at this a few years back, while I did not make much progress it > seemed very do'able while keeping the older kernel and supporting > firmware blobs. The main concern was firmware recovery without having to > resort to jTAG and the state of the bootloader should it all go > sideways, that put me off at the time but happy to start looking into > that again if there is a critical mass of people wanting to mess with > this as it might have tangible value. > > For background, while I have not contributed to the Squeezebox scene > much (other than being an active user for many many years) I do have a > background with OpenEmbedded and general embedded Linux and helped > create the OpenPandora console years ago as the firmware lead > (OpenEmbedded based firmware, much like SqueezeOS) so I have so exposure > to that area. > I'm exactly in the same situation, I use and love squeezebox scene for so many years without having contributed too much :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ naguirre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111663 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
