Re: Mirabox kernel help needed
I have not left the planet :-) Just swamped with administrative things that one has to do in an unfunded small company to keep at least a nose out of the water. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Re: Mirabox kernel help needed
Got it and printed a copy for annotation when I get to the lab tomorrow. Thanks much. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Re: Mirabox kernel help needed
Okay, I hadn't been thinking in those terms because in my mind I already had the sdcard 'allocated'. That is useful. Bricking GlobalScale units is definitely a thing... I managed to do it to one of there Guru boxes back in 2012. Never had time to fix it; at those prices it was cheaper to bin it than have them pay me to figure it out! As to the development, I can do both. I have a full set of the packages for the release on the Miraboxes (7.1) ... it is an old release but they have stayed with it for years and but for the kernel it serves my purposes. I have one of the test units designated as the development system for my own debian packages anyway and I've already got gcc and all of the debian helper package tool chain on it. Also, I have several 256 GB USB 3.0 sticks laying around my lab bench, so no problem. I am really glad to hear that cross compilers have been simplified. Walking 10 miles to school in deep snow, up hill both ways, is best left in the past. I'm hoping to come out of this with a simple, replicable install sequence using the newly built kernel and module set... I will have to replicate this on at least 4 other units. It would also be nice if I can breath life into 4 old units I have and be able to describe the process to a couple of folks who work with me remotely on occasion so they can upgrade as well. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Re: Mirabox kernel help needed
Another question: I loaded a package set for a full development environment on one of my Miraboxes. I presume that I could just do the kernel build directly on the target hardware? I would think so, but I've not heard anyone else say they did it that way. Slow does not matter that much. It can run over the weekend if it has to. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Re: Mirabox kernel help needed
Thanks for getting back to me. I hope you are right. What little I have found via searches with Google were not comforting, to say the least. I can't do a boot from the sdcard for this application as I will probably be using it for something else. I think that is why I was thinking I need to do something with uboot. I don't have a cross compiler, although I have heard there might be one at Globalscale. I have built cross-compilers but not since I did one to build m68000 code for a NeXT from an i486... needless to say, it took several days to do the 3 compiles to generate it. I hope the world has gotten easier in the ensuing two decades. I'm working on some stuff where I have to be quite conservative as I hope to put it into a cubesat someday if we can raise the cash for it. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Mirabox kernel help needed
I've been mostly a listener for about the last 5 years, and now finally have a project that is moving forward that is using a Mirabox as the prototype hardware. The problem is, as anyone who knows this piece of kit has seen, is that it uses a desperately pared down kernel and all sorts of special tricks/software to upgrade. What I really want is to just build some drivers for it, specifically the usbserial and the firewalling related ones. The ideal would be if I knew how to just compile those against the kernel that is on board so that I do not have to even touch the NVRAM and what from my readings so far looks like a room full of twisty turny passages, all the same... and mostly with dragons at the other end. Are there folks here who have mastered this beast at the ko file level or if necessary at the uboot and kernel build level? I seriously need to find someone who can answer stupid obvious questions that then aim me in the correct direction to make the next mistake on my way up the learning curve. It looks vertical from where I sit right now... I am working with units using the 3.2.36 kernels, although I do also have some older ones which may have an older kernel and which have a wifi chip that is too primitive for my prototype project and so could be used where bricking is a risk. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+
Anyone familiar with Mirabox?
I'm having some trouble getting into a Mirabox running Debian 7 mirabox-debian using minicom. I get all the boot output but it is not accepting input. It's not just echo because if that were so, typing root blindly at the login prompt should cause something to happen. I regularly use minicom via /dev/ttyUSB0 for other machines and have no problems. Anyone know if any special settings are needed in the minirc file? Be happy to supply any more info. Also would be happy to head for a debian mirabox discussion group if I could find one... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140615174320.gb4...@vnl.com
Re: Anyone familiar with Mirabox?
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:43:20AM -0700, Dale Amon wrote: I'm having some trouble getting into a Mirabox running Debian 7 mirabox-debian using minicom. I get all the boot output but it is not accepting input. It's not just echo because if that were so, typing root blindly at the login prompt should cause something to happen. I regularly use minicom via /dev/ttyUSB0 for other machines and have no problems. Anyone know if any special settings are needed in the minirc file? Be happy to supply any more info. Also would be happy to head for a debian mirabox discussion group if I could find one... Hate to answer my own question, but it turns out that it does not like hardware flow control to be on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140616052339.ga5...@vnl.com
Re: Good ARM board for Debian?
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:37:07AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: jerry: i apologise - there are too many judgements and assumptions for me to be able to continue this conversation, especially without consultancy fees being paid. i've given you a lot of advice: you're not listening to it. you may also wish to bear in mind that the client is going to be able to do their own google searches and find this conversation. you may also wish to consider that you've misled people on this list, and they have provided you with answers according to those misleading questions. you might like to consider compensating them - or the debian project - for their time in some appropriate way. However many of us who are silent have found this to be one of the more interesting discussions on the business and industry of SoC that have come along in a very long time. Definitely a high S/N. I say this as someone in early stages of an aerospace product development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131224130750.gk4...@vnl.com
Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?
Thanks... I have managed to find a compile time work around to my primary issue, which negates my need to update. I may return to this later after we get in a couple newer units from them, at which time I can afford to play with the existing ones without risking schedule slippage. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Anyone-got-Wheezy-running-on-a-Dreamplug-tp2943613p3040942.html Sent from the debian-arm mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377797131543-3040942.p...@n7.nabble.com
Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?
Seems to be a lot of discussion of complex setups and bricking, which makes me a bit nervous as I do not have a lot of time to accomplish my goal. I am considering a Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade on a DreamPlug solely to get rid of a ObjC/FoundationKit issue which occurs during a compile under Debian Squeeze Armel but does not happen under Ubuntu Raring AMD64... /usr/include/GNUstep/Foundation/NSException.h:42:2: error: #error The current setting for native-objc-exceptions does not match that of gnustep-base ... please correct this. Since I am building a system that must be easily reproducable, ie low levels of 'magical' input to make it work, I am leaning towards the upgrade... but... can you do a simple, straightforwards upgrade of the DreamPlug by doing nothing but change the sources.list followed by a dselect upgrade, select, install? Ie no fiddling with low level uBoot and JTAG commands? ie, do the update exactly like I would on a server or laptop? -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Anyone-got-Wheezy-running-on-a-Dreamplug-tp2943613p3040163.html Sent from the debian-arm mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377717050370-3040163.p...@n7.nabble.com
