CSOS-WANDBOARD-DUAL-R2-20130410-1.IMG A Release 2 image, one day after the Release 1 image????? ;)
I would like a couple of testers to download this image, dd it to an SDCARD and use it. I can't promise any new features, no new code.... >From a functionaility point of view it is exactly the same as the R1 image. So, you may ask, what is different? OK, the difference is that we are now using mainline uboot. (Well, nearly, it's the v2013.04-rc2 branch plus 2 patches). Rather than have the kernel (uImage) 1M in from the start of the sdcard and a single root partition, we now have 2 partitions, boot and rootfs. boot is a small 50M ext2 partition, rootfs is the second partition, formatted ext4 which takes up the rest of the 4GB sdcard. boot is mounted on the rootfs as /boot/uboot. The kernel image we are booting is a zImage located in the root of the boot partition. (Actually, zImage is a symbolic link to the real image, zImage-3.0.35-cm25.) What this basically means is that going forward, making kernel updates via rpm is less risky. No need to dd them to a specific location on the card, just copy the zImage to the /boot/uboot dir and change the symlink. And it means you can have multiple kernels installed and just by changing the symlink, you boot a different one on the next boot. It also means, (and this is still to come), that rather than having the kernel bootargs hardcoded into the binary u-boot image, (which means a recompile to change args), it will be possible to edit a text file located on the boot partition, reboot, and you are rebooting with the new args. (Which may prove to be rather useful for setting hdmi resolution.) 'CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R2-20130410-1.img.7z' (http://www.communitysqueeze.org/images/wandboard/CSOS/CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R2-20130410-1.img.7z) Until we are comfortable that there are no unforseen side effects from switching to the more recent uboot and booting the kernel from a partition, I would ask that only people who have run the R1 image try this one. I consider it to be a test image. First timers and people wanting the "official" release image, should use 'CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R1-20130409-1.img.7z' (http://www.communitysqueeze.org/images/wandboard/CSOS/CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R1-20130409-1.img.7z). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98190 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
