Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Just to let everyone know I've now managed to get onto the efika power developer forums, put up a post here; http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=15124#15124 ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Hello all :) , Just to let everyone know I've put up some files for the efika mx/smartbook/armedslack (does not include X!) can be found here ; http://andy29uk.no-ip.org/www/armedslack-efika-mx-smartbook/ I did get X to work with the vesa driver earlier but it was really slow. Crux linux seems to have it working though so I'm going to try to find out how they did it! ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 3 September 2011 17:34, Ottavio pr0f3ss0r1...@yahoo.com wrote: the mx smartbook needs its down driver called xf86-video-imx which would need to be compiled from scratch If you want to try yopur hand at it: http://gitorious.org/xf86-video-imx Again I'm guessing here but that needs lots of other libraries which need to be built (e.g. libz160bin) and other libraries I am not sure if this is what you are lloking for but the driver libz160.so.1.0 is here: http://packages.efikamx.info/pool/main/libz/libz160/ You'd have to convert it to a slackware package though -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 4 September 2011 23:37, Ottavio pr0f3ss0r1...@yahoo.com wrote: On 3 September 2011 17:34, Ottavio pr0f3ss0r1...@yahoo.com wrote: the mx smartbook needs its down driver called xf86-video-imx which would need to be compiled from scratch If you want to try yopur hand at it: http://gitorious.org/xf86-video-imx Again I'm guessing here but that needs lots of other libraries which need to be built (e.g. libz160bin) and other libraries I am not sure if this is what you are lloking for but the driver libz160.so.1.0 is here: http://packages.efikamx.info/pool/main/libz/libz160/ You'd have to convert it to a slackware package though More stuff (both binary and source) is here: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53_SWparentCode=IMX53QSBfpsp=1 You need an account with Freescale. I don't know how long it takes, I haven't tried. Good luck! -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Have you got network and Xorg running? Can you add some screenshots? I just about have networking (wlan) working right now with wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. Not tried anything else yet though. X will be compilcated. Not much to see in screenshots right now apart from the command line! ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: Have you got network and Xorg running? Can you add some screenshots? I just about have networking (wlan) working right now with wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. Not tried anything else yet though. X will be compilcated. Not much to see in screenshots right now apart from the command line! ljones Some good news and bad news. Good news? I can now say after installing alsa that the sound works. Thinking that after installing alsa I'd need to run alsaconf - alsaconf dosen't seem to run correctly (I get error message such as modinfo: could not find module snd) however it appears it didn't need to be run in the first place as the sound seems to be working anyway. I tired installing mpg123 and also libtool (it needed it) and tired to play an mp3, which worked. Also alsamixer seems to be working. The bad news is X, I'm afraid. From what I'm reading (and I'm not 100% on any of this) the mx smartbook needs its down driver called xf86-video-imx which would need to be compiled from scratch, though it dosen't provide any 2d acceleration for X. Again I'm guessing here but that needs lots of other libraries which need to be built (e.g. libz160bin) and other libraries, some of which may be propietary(!). I'm trying to infer some of this from this post - http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1870postdays=0postorder=ascstart=0 ..so for now, X is impossible right now. ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 3 September 2011 13:26, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: The bad news is X, I'm afraid. From what I'm reading (and I'm not 100% on any of this) the mx smartbook needs its down driver called xf86-video-imx which would need to be compiled from scratch, though it dosen't provide any 2d acceleration for X. Again I'm guessing here but that needs lots of other libraries which need to be built (e.g. libz160bin) and other libraries, some of which may be propietary(!). I'm trying to infer some of this from this post - http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1870postdays=0postorder=ascstart=0 I have applied for an account on powerdeveloper.org and yet not granted one. This is the only think that keeps me from buying the Genesi smartbook. It's a nice little pet and I would be happy to run Armedslack in chroot for the time being. -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
I have applied for an account on powerdeveloper.org and yet not granted one. This is the only think that keeps me from buying the Genesi smartbook. It's a nice little pet and I would be happy to run Armedslack in chroot for the time being. -- Ottavio Tried registering there myself on their forums just over a week ago now, got the same result not yet granted one. ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Some more intresting news. This time I can report more success :) ! I was just poking about on the internet, when I turned up this; http://crux-arm.nu/SupportedDevices/EfikaMX-SmartTop Apparently crux linux can run on the smarttop (think very much like the efika mx smartbook but with no screen and uses even less power!) and they have a link there to a kernel and modules. Those are; http://crux-arm.nu/files/devices/efikamx/uImage-2.6.31.14.22-efikamx_20110510(the kernel) http://crux-arm.nu/files/devices/efikamx/modules-2.6.31.14.22-efikamx_20110510.tar.bz2(the modules) So far I've just very quickly tried the following. I replaced the kernel I was using on the first SD partition with the one above in the link and extracted/copied across the modules too. Then it was just a case of modifying the boot.scr.in file to point to the new kernel and then running (from the installed ubuntu install) script.prep boot.scr.in boot.scr and rebooted. This time with this kernel I was more succesful. I haven't tried much else right now - but I can now login with login name root and password password. Keyboard looks good too seems to be working fine. Even plugging in a plain old fashioned boring usb memory stick and mounting it worked! How much works (or dosen't work) after that though I don't know! ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 2 September 2011 23:22, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: This time with this kernel I was more succesful. I haven't tried much else right now - but I can now login with login name root and password password. Keyboard looks good too seems to be working fine. Even plugging in a plain old fashioned boring usb memory stick and mounting it worked! So, it looks like you 'ported' armedslack onto the Efikamx (ok, I know that Armedslack needs not be ported, I was just exaggerating a bit...). Have you got network and Xorg running? Can you add some screenshots? -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were
loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ?
some modules may not get autoloaded automatically.
Regards
David
Da: lee jones slothp...@gmail.com
Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org
Data: Mercoledì 31 agosto 2011, 14:45
Ok here's a tidied up list of what I've tried (second attempt) at installing
armedslack on the Efika MX smartbook.
Armedslack Version used = slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz
Efika mx modules/kernel version = 2.6.31.14.22
0. Notes
* This dosen't work properly yet - currently boots to a command line, but
keyboard is unusable.
1. Grab an SD card and partition it into two partitons
Partition 1 - 100MB EXT3
Partition 2 - Rest of card EXT4
2. Format both partitions on a linux system. Use mkfs.ext3 for the ext3
partiton, and use mkfs.ext4 for the ext4 partition.
3. Download the slack 13.1 miniroot file from here;
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/minirootfs/roots/slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz
4. Download the following files from here;
[1] http://ausil.us/smartbook/boot-2.6.31.14.22-efikamx.tar
[2] http://ausil.us/smartbook/modules-2.6.31.14.22-efikamx.tar
[3] http://ausil.us/smartbook/firmware.tar.bz2
[4] http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/mavericksd/boot.tar.xz
5. Extract two scripts from [4] - these are the files script-prep and
kernel-prep.
6. Extract the contents of [1] onto the first partition of the SD card. Move
the files into the boot directory into the root of the first partition of the
SD card. Delete the directories dracut and grub.
7. Extract the files from the slack distro onto the second partition of the SD
card, e.g.
tar -xf slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jul10.tar.xz -C
/where/you/mounted/the/second/partition
8. Extract the files from [2] and [3] onto the second partition of the SD card.
9. On the second SD card partition edit /etc/inittab and comment out the line
starting with s0:1234, put a # in front of that line to comment it out.
9. On the second SD card partition edit /etc/fstab and add the following;
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
10. On the first partition when the files in [1] were extracted you should have
a boot.scr.in file. Edit this to look as follows;
setenv ramdisk uInitrd;
setenv kernel uImage;
setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 selinux=0 rootwait ro;
${loadcmd} ${ramdiskaddr} ${ramdisk};
if imi ${ramdiskaddr}; then; else
setenv bootargs ${bootargs} noinitrd;
setenv ramdiskaddr ;
fi;
${loadcmd} ${kerneladdr} ${kernel}
if imi ${kerneladdr}; then
bootm ${kerneladdr} ${ramdiskaddr}
fi;
11. Boot the efika MX and allow it to boot the default linux (ubuntu) install.
Insert the SD card, open a command line to where the SD card (1st partition) is
mounted and do the following;
sudo ./script-prep boot.scr.in boot.scr
12. Reboot the efika MX smartbook, leave the SD card in the SD slot.
ljones
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Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ? some modules may not get autoloaded automatically. Regards David Must admit I didn't think of that. I looked at the rc.modules for armedslack and all it appears do be doing is to be checking for the presense of a mouse (ps2 from memory) and if it exists, load its module. The equivilent on the flash install on the efika mx (it uses ubuntu on its internal flash by defaut) I think the equivilent file in ubuntu is called /etc/modules, all that did was to load something called gpu. Modprobing that in armedslack made no difference. I then thought and . well, decided to try to see what lsmod was saying about which modules were being loaded. Looks like armedslack is using quite a few less modules than the internal version! Modules used/loaded by armedslack after boot; Module Size Used by vfat 11364 1 fat52240 1 vfat gpu 109680 0 ipv6 281484 10 ext3 122720 1 jbd50152 1 ext3 btusb 13192 0 bluetooth 61708 1 btusb rfkill 21000 1 bluetooth sbs 9672 0 rt2870sta 356960 0 snd_soc_sgtl5000 14956 0 usb_storage37140 1 usb_libusual 20868 1 usb_storage usbhid 20996 0 hid38228 1 usbhid ehci_hcd 37956 0 usbcore 144516 6 btusb,rt2870sta,usb_storage,usb_libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd dm_mod 70900 0 Modules used/loaded by internal flash (ubuntu) after boot; Module Size Used by vfat 11252 1 fat51308 1 vfat usb_storage37064 1 usb_libusual 20848 1 usb_storage cpufreq_ondemand7644 1 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 8472 0 snd_soc_imx_ssi 6716 1 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 binfmt_misc 9028 1 dm_crypt 13980 0 sco11364 2 bnep 13200 2 l2cap 24040 3 bnep btusb 13192 2 uvcvideo 61008 0 bluetooth 60872 11 sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb rfkill 20892 3 bluetooth ipv6 280868 12 rt2870sta 344224 1 usbhid 20936 0 hid37132 1 usbhid ext3 121736 1 jbd50008 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 37948 0 sbs 9672 0 snd_soc_sgtl5000 14916 3 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 usbcore 143952 7 usb_storage,usb_libusual,btusb,uvcvideo,rt2870sta,usbhid,ehci_hcd gpu 108160 2 ecryptfs 96484 0 ext4 310100 1 mbcache 8120 2 ext3,ext4 jbd2 80284 1 ext4 dm_mirror 15036 0 dm_region_hash 10396 1 dm_mirror dm_log 11076 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash dm_mod 70516 3 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_log mmc_block 11212 0 mx_sdhci 17716 0 mmc_core 55364 2 mmc_block,mx_sdhci pata_fsl 11568 3 libata143864 1 pata_fsl ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Aorry for top posting but I seem to be unable to change my yahoo settings not to do this any more. What if you try to load the modules that were missed by armedslack ? --- Gio 1/9/11, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: lee jones slothp...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz) A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Giovedì 1 settembre 2011, 13:51 On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ? some modules may not get autoloaded automatically. Regards David Must admit I didn't think of that. I looked at the rc.modules for armedslack and all it appears do be doing is to be checking for the presense of a mouse (ps2 from memory) and if it exists, load its module. The equivilent on the flash install on the efika mx (it uses ubuntu on its internal flash by defaut) I think the equivilent file in ubuntu is called /etc/modules, all that did was to load something called gpu. Modprobing that in armedslack made no difference. I then thought and . well, decided to try to see what lsmod was saying about which modules were being loaded. Looks like armedslack is using quite a few less modules than the internal version! Modules used/loaded by armedslack after boot; Module Size Used by vfat 11364 1 fat 52240 1 vfat gpu 109680 0 ipv6 281484 10 ext3 122720 1 jbd 50152 1 ext3 btusb 13192 0 bluetooth 61708 1 btusb rfkill 21000 1 bluetooth sbs 9672 0 rt2870sta 356960 0 snd_soc_sgtl5000 14956 0 usb_storage 37140 1 usb_libusual 20868 1 usb_storage usbhid 20996 0 hid 38228 1 usbhid ehci_hcd 37956 0 usbcore 144516 6 btusb,rt2870sta,usb_storage,usb_libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd dm_mod 70900 0 Modules used/loaded by internal flash (ubuntu) after boot; Module Size Used by vfat 11252 1 fat 51308 1 vfat usb_storage 37064 1 usb_libusual 20848 1 usb_storage cpufreq_ondemand 7644 1 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 8472 0 snd_soc_imx_ssi 6716 1 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 binfmt_misc 9028 1 dm_crypt 13980 0 sco 11364 2 bnep 13200 2 l2cap 24040 3 bnep btusb 13192 2 uvcvideo 61008 0 bluetooth 60872 11 sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb rfkill 20892 3 bluetooth ipv6 280868 12 rt2870sta 344224 1 usbhid 20936 0 hid 37132 1 usbhid ext3 121736 1 jbd 50008 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 37948 0 sbs 9672 0 snd_soc_sgtl5000 14916 3 snd_soc_imx_3stack_sgtl5000 usbcore 143952 7 usb_storage,usb_libusual,btusb,uvcvideo,rt2870sta,usbhid,ehci_hcd gpu 108160 2 ecryptfs 96484 0 ext4 310100 1 mbcache 8120 2 ext3,ext4 jbd2 80284 1 ext4 dm_mirror 15036 0 dm_region_hash 10396 1 dm_mirror dm_log 11076 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash dm_mod 70516 3 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_log mmc_block 11212 0 mx_sdhci 17716 0 mmc_core 55364 2 mmc_block,mx_sdhci pata_fsl 11568 3 libata 143864 1 pata_fsl ljones -Segue allegato- ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/ ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ? some modules may not get autoloaded automatically. Does it not make more sense to mount armedslack in chroot and then build kernel and modules form there? You don't need to do this - you can build a kernel with a cross compiler. It's far faster. I don't have a reference document for this -- the only cross environment I have is here: ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/x-toolchain/ but this is just enough of a cross toolchain to enable distcc on my x86 machines. Also, there's no reason why you couldn't build the kernel modules on another compatible ARM Linux distribution first, then copy them into your ARMedslack filesystem. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
I thaught the guy was using efika specifik cernel from some other source ... so that the just could be loaded manually. Mut maybe I undestuud wrong. If you are compiling your own kernel for that hardware make sure you apply all the necessary patches that are not in the vanilla kernel upstream (good lunck on that as most of them could have problems applying to whatever version you choos to use instead of the version they were made for). Regards David --- Gio 1/9/11, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk ha scritto: Da: Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz) A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Giovedì 1 settembre 2011, 16:36 Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ? some modules may not get autoloaded automatically. Does it not make more sense to mount armedslack in chroot and then build kernel and modules form there? You don't need to do this - you can build a kernel with a cross compiler. It's far faster. I don't have a reference document for this -- the only cross environment I have is here: ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/x-toolchain/ but this is just enough of a cross toolchain to enable distcc on my x86 machines. Also, there's no reason why you couldn't build the kernel modules on another compatible ARM Linux distribution first, then copy them into your ARMedslack filesystem. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
That's certianly a good idea, quite agree about recompiling the kernel. Only snag is I don't know anywhere near enough about doing so - especially on arm, and from what I've read there needs to be special bits 'n' pieces compiled in for (say) the gpu to work properly. I'm really thinking I'll have to wait this isn't something I have anywhere enough ability to do x.x ! ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
That's certianly a good idea, quite agree about recompiling the kernel. Only snag is I don't know anywhere near enough about doing so - especially on arm, and from what I've read there needs to be special bits 'n' pieces compiled in for (say) the gpu to work properly. I'm really thinking I'll have to wait this isn't something I have anywhere enough ability to do x.x ! Each architecture should have a default configuration. So you cd into the root of the Linux kernel source, and do for example: make ARCH=arm rpc_defconfig which would place the RiscPC default configuration as the kernel '.config' file. You can find the configs in: arch/arm/configs If the Efika can boot via tftp (I haven't been following the thread much) then you place the newly compiled kernel onto your tftp server and boot it over the network. This way you leave the original one (on your NAND or whatever) in tact. This is how I usually test the new kernels for ARMedslack. This way, if your kernel works then it does -- if not, you can recompile until you get it right. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 27 August 2011 13:52, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I decided to note down as a list of instructions what I've tried to do, here goes. Note that it still does not boot! Have you tried using these other boot, modules and firmware tarballs (not the rootfs, that's fedora 13): http://ausil.us/smartbook/ I have a feeling these will work and you don't need to run any scripts with this one, just unpack the boot tarball on the first partition on a sdcard formated ext3 and replace the armedslack modules and firmare and let us know. -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Ok I decided to note down as a list of instructions what I've tried to
do, here goes. Note that it still does not boot!
Attempt at getting Armedslack 13.1 onto Efika MX Smartbook
Armedslack Version used = slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz
Efika mx modules/kernel version = 2.6.31.14.20-efikamx
0. Notes
* This dosen't work yet. Although the earlier boot error messages I had have
largely gone - so far the MX smartbook locks up/hangs, it dosen't complete
boot.
* I changed the 1st partiton from EXT2 to EXT3 as I found that while I was
doing all of this it (partiton 1) would get corrupted x.x .
* The efika mx kernel used here *at boot-up* dosen't understand EXT3!
* Once booting has started EXT3 seems ok but them dosen't understand EXT2...
* I ended up using EXT3 for partiton 1 and EXT4 for partition 2.
here's what I've tried;
1. Grab an SD card and partition it into two partitions
Partition 1 - 100MB EXT3
Partition 2 - Rest of card EXT4
2. Format both partitions on a linux system. Use mkfs.ext3 for the ext3
partiton, and use mkfs.ext4 for the ext4 partition.
3. Download the slack 13.1 miniroot file from here;
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/minirootfs/roots/slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz
4. Download both the boot.tar.xz and root.tar.xz from here;
http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/mavericksd/
5. Extract the files from the boot.tar.xz file onto the first partiton. Note
that in the .tar.xz file the files are in a directory called boot. These
will need to be moved to the root of the 1st partition of the SD card. Also
get rid of the old boot directory and lost+found.
6. Extract the files from the slack distro onto the second partition of the
SD card, e.g. tar -xf slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jul10.tar.xz -C
/where/you/mounted/the/second/partition
7. Extract the /lib/modules directory and files from the root.tar.xz file.
Copy them onto the second SD card partition into /lib/modules.
8. Edit on the second SD partition etc/inittab and comment out the line
starting s0:1234, put a # in front to comment out.
9. Edit on the second SD partition etc/fstab and add this;
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
10. Boot up the efika MX smartbook with no SD card in it (so it goes into
its ubuntu distro), once it has loaded up pop in the second card.
11. On the first SD card partition, change the boot.script file to read as
follows (it should be in the root of the 1st SD card partition, you'll need
sudo also);
**
setenv ramdisk uInitrd-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx;
setenv kernel uImage-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx;
setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro;
${loadcmd} ${ramdiskaddr} ${ramdisk};
if imi ${ramdiskaddr}; then; else
setenv bootargs ${bootargs} noinitrd;
setenv ramdiskaddr ;
fi;
${loadcmd} ${kerneladdr} ${kernel}
if imi ${kerneladdr}; then
bootm ${kerneladdr} ${ramdiskaddr}
fi;
**
11. From the first partition of the SD card run the following command;
sudo ./script-prep boot.script boot.scr
12. Shut down the MX smartbook, leave the SD card in its slot and power back
on.
ljones
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Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Also contents of /var/log/dmesg; [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Linux version 2.6.31.14.20-efikamx (root@buildbot) (gcc version 4.5.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.1-7ubuntu2) ) #2 PREEMPT Mon Feb 28 21:18:36 CST 2011 [0.00] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [412fc085] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f [0.00] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache [0.00] Machine: Genesi Efika MX (Smartbook) [0.00] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback [0.00] On node 0 totalpages: 106496 [0.00] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80419a14, node_mem_map 8047e000 [0.00] DMA zone: 192 pages used for memmap [0.00] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [0.00] DMA zone: 24384 pages, LIFO batch:3 [0.00] Normal zone: 640 pages used for memmap [0.00] Normal zone: 81280 pages, LIFO batch:15 [0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 105664 [0.00] Kernel command line: console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro [0.00] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) [0.00] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [0.00] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [0.00] Memory: 416MB = 416MB total [0.00] Memory: 410884KB available (3564K code, 589K data, 136K init, 0K highmem) [0.00] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [0.00] Hierarchical RCU implementation. [0.00] NR_IRQS:368 [0.00] MXC IRQ initialized [0.00] Console: colour dummy device 80x30 [0.00] console [tty1] enabled [0.00] Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS (lpj=3997696) [0.00] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [0.00] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok [0.00] devtmpfs: initialized [0.00] regulator: core version 0.5 [0.00] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [0.00] i.MX IRAM pool: 128 KB@0x9a84 [0.00] IRAM READY [0.00] CPU is i.MX51 Revision 3.0 [0.00] MXC GPIO hardware [0.00] Efika MX: mmc0 configured as MicroSD [0.00] Efika MX: mmc1 configured as external SDHC [0.00] Efika MX: Smartbook Revision 2.0 [0.00] Efika MX: Memory type Hynix DDR2 [0.00] Using SDMA I.API [0.00] MXC DMA API initialized [0.00] bio: create slab bio-0 at 0 [0.00] SCSI subsystem initialized [0.00] CSPI: mxc_spi-0 probed [0.00] IPU DMFC NORMAL mode: 1(0~1), 5B(4,5), 5F(6,7) [0.00] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [0.00] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [0.00] mc13892 Rev 2.0 FinVer 2 detected [0.00] Initializing regulators for Efika MX [0.00] regulator: SW1: 600 -- 1375 mV [0.00] regulator: SW2: 900 -- 1850 mV [0.00] regulator: SW3: 1100 -- 1850 mV [0.00] regulator: SW4: 1100 -- 1850 mV [0.00] regulator: SWBST: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: VIOHI: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: VPLL: 1050 -- 1800 mV [0.00] regulator: VDIG: 1650 mV [0.00] regulator: VSD: 1800 -- 3150 mV [0.00] regulator: VUSB2: 2400 -- 2775 mV [0.00] regulator: VVIDEO: 2775 mV [0.00] regulator: VAUDIO: 2300 -- 3000 mV [0.00] regulator: VCAM: 2500 -- 3000 mV fast normal [0.00] regulator: VGEN1: 1200 -- 3150 mV [0.00] regulator: VGEN2: 1200 -- 3150 mV [0.00] regulator: VGEN3: 1800 -- 2900 mV [0.00] regulator: VUSB: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: GPO1: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: GPO2: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: GPO3: 0 mV [0.00] regulator: GPO4: 0 mV [0.00] Device spi1.0 probed [1.067574] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 [1.067933] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [1.068321] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [1.069353] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [1.069657] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [1.069836] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) [1.069867] TCP reno registered [1.070091] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [1.070330] Unpacking initramfs... [1.476889] Freeing initrd memory: 6596K [1.477916] LPMode driver module loaded [1.477954] Static Power Management for Freescale i.MX51 [1.478289] PM driver module loaded [1.478583] sdram autogating driver module loaded [1.478963] Bus freq driver module loaded [1.479031] mxc_dvfs_core_probe [1.479348] DVFS driver module loaded [1.479386] i.MXC CPU frequency driver [1.480023] DVFS PER driver module loaded [
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ottavio pr0f3ss0r1...@yahoo.com wrote: On 25 August 2011 21:49, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: The second partition contains this ( ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/minirootfs/roots/slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz) Excuse the silly question, did you actually extract the image on the partition or did just copy the archive (I said it was a silly question but I had to ask!). *thinks ... I partitioned the SD card into two partitions and formatted them; for the second partition I downloaded the slack-13.1 miniroot file and extracted its contents onto the second SD partiton. boot.script looks like this setenv ramdisk uInitrd-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx; setenv kernel uImage-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx; setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw; How is the second partition recognised on your smartbook (fdisk -l)? Did you change root= to point to the right partition? I'd also add rootfs=ext3 . root= seems to be ok pointing to the correct partition. fdisk -l shows the sd card as two partitions - /dev/mmcblk0p1 (1st sd partition) and /dev/mmcblk0p2 (2nd sd partition). In my boot.script file it says root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 .I also tried adding in rootfs=ext3 . Copy the original boot.script into boot.script.orig, then edit boot.script and: cd /boot ./script-prep boot.script boot.scr I did try that, Intrestingly if I put it all into /boot on the sd card the efika mx won't boot from the SD card at all. I have to put everything in root (of the SD card) to even get it to consider booting! Didn't succeed in booting from SD though, same problem as before. Then, according to William Steuben's instructions: If you want the initial first time boot setup to work you need to cd to the root filesystem of the sd card and type touch var/lib/oem-config/run Not sure but the slack 13.1 miniroot dosen't seem to have this file. Do this only if you have a recovery image. I don't want to be responsible for the life of your smartbook. And another thing: have you tried to boot from the installed Ubuntu, mount the Slackware partition and then chroot into it? At least you know if you can run that system with that kernel and those modules. That's an intresting idea! Just sticking with the slack 13.1 miniroot on the sd card (second partition) I tried doing sudo chroot on the second partiton (I used df -h to get the directory name where it is mounted in ubuntu) and it seemed to work (though I only tried basic bash-like commands like ls, cp etc). I also tried running pkgtool surprisingly this worked too and I was able to list all the installed packages (In the slack 13.1 miniroot) by choosing the view option. ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
Ok, I have an update here as I have gotten a little further. But (wait for it) there's good news and bad news. The good news? I've now gotten further with booting. It appears the efika mx kernel dosen't work with ext3! Going over the top of the second partiton (using ext3) with ext4 meant I got further with booting. The bad news? I'm now as far in as Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz . The system all but stops there, the only line it prints after some time is INIT: Id s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. I also double-checked the /etc/fstab on the slackware 13.1 mini file system (second partiton of my SD card) it looks fine (I am guessing here); ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:04 PM, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I have an update here as I have gotten a little further. But (wait for it) there's good news and bad news. The good news? I've now gotten further with booting. It appears the efika mx kernel dosen't work with ext3! Going over the top of the second partiton (using ext3) with ext4 meant I got further with booting. The bad news? I'm now as far in as Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz . The system all but stops there, the only line it prints after some time is INIT: Id s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. I also double-checked the /etc/fstab on the slackware 13.1 mini file system (second partiton of my SD card) it looks fine (I am guessing here); ljones Update : The messages about INIT: s0 respawning have gone :) (had to edit inittab) but still got the lock up after the line /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz. I tried stopping this from loading by doing this; # Load the keyboard map. More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. #if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then # /usr/bin/loadkeys uk.map #fi but it now locks up on starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/daemon --system. Something is causing armedslack to lock up but not sure what! ljones ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 26 August 2011 22:09, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: The /etc/fstab reads; /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 Shouldn't that be: /dev/mmcblk0p2 /ext4 defaults1 1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0 ? -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 24 August 2011 22:24, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: Armedslack on the efika mx could be intresting - the supplied ubuntu install works but it's not all that fast. Maybe armedslack with kde 3.5 might be faster? Thanks for your interest in the matter, although to be honest I myself am starting to lose interest in it. I have applied for an account on the Power Developer forum (for those who are not familiar: Genesi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesi used to be a Power PC manufacturer, then they switched to ARM but retained the 'Power' so to speak) but I haven't had a contact yet. It looks like this August the whole world is on holiday. -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)
On 25 August 2011 00:15, lee jones slothp...@gmail.com wrote: Must admit I'd still like to try it if only to replace that s-l-o-w ubuntu install. Though I'm just not sure how to go about it but I was reading this; http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/mavericksd/README.txt In particular the end of it as far as I can tell what is needed is a kernel, initrd and a boot.scr file. It looks like that the kernel is in the 'linux-image-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx' package: http://packages.efikamx.info/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx/ It's a .deb file and if you extract it in the /boot directory you'll find vmlinuz-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx. There's no separate initrd. Whether this kernel would boot slackware root out of the box, I doubt it because armedslack-13.37 comes with the 2.6.38.4 kernel and armedslack-current with 2.6.39.4 but this is only my opinion. If you have an account on power developer you could do us a favour and ask there. About creating the boot.src and/or building the kernel from scratch: https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Efika The standard boot.src should be in the /boot partition of the SSD. Though weather it is possible to use armedslack's kernel/initrd or the efika's ones I'm not sure. The kernels on armedslack repository are only for kirkwood and versatile. -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
