Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> Well, I would like to know if the newer versions in Debian are or aren't >>> working, if you'd be

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> There are a couple bugs reported against u-boot which may be relevent: >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/781874 >>> https://bugs.debian.org/782293 For what it’s worth, by grepping about in /dev/mtd0, I located what

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

This site's MAYBE worth looking at: http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/ On 1/6/16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I’ll try your 2016.01~rc3+dfsg1-3 from experimental as soon as I can. > > Great, thanks. > > >> Just to be sure of what I need

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote: > For what it’s worth, by grepping about in /dev/mtd0, I located what > seems to be the place where the u-boot environment is located. > > It’s 0x8. > > And to verify that, I have changed /etc/fw_env.config to > >> # MTD device name Device offset Env. size

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote: > I’ll try your 2016.01~rc3+dfsg1-3 from experimental as soon as I can. Great, thanks. > Just to be sure of what I need to do: > > 1) Install the new versions of Debian packages for u-boot and u-boot-tools on > my test SheevaPlug Debian (currently running Sid)

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment - correction!

On Jan 6, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > At a minimum, the patch in bug#781874 needs to be applied in order to be > compatible with modern version of u-boot. Oooops! Sorry! Brain-fart… The patch doesn’t do what I thought it did. What I should have said is: At

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On Jan 6, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> So I guess it’s all explained by https://bugs.debian.org/781874 . > > I really don't understand the logic outlined in that bug report, and > your results don't exactly come to the same conclusion, which is why > I've

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Well, I would like to know if the newer versions in Debian are or aren't >> working, if you'd be willing to try. They do still build in 2016.01~rc3, >> so newer versions probably have

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not >>> using “generic board”. >> >> It

sheeveplug u-boot environment

On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not >> using “generic board”. > > It turns out that this may, in fact, be relevant. Googling for > “README.generic-board”