On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/20/2012 03:51 PM, Andrew Rankin wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Gordan Bobic<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 08/18/2012 03:30 AM, Andrew Rankin wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I haven't posted before but have been standing in the corner listening >>>> to the list for a while. I'm a bit a noob to the world of ARM, but >>>> have plenty of RHEL/CentOS experience. >>>> >>>> VIA finally sent and I finally received their little APC.io board this >>>> week and I was able to boot the RedSleeve rootfs using their kernel >>>> with the rootfs on an SD card. >>>> >>>> What I did is here: >>>> >>>> http://www.balldawg.net/index.php/2012/08/via-apc-redsleeve-linux-install/ >>>> >>>> I hope to get it working and installed on 2GB of built in NAND >>>> sometime soon. I'm more than happy to write up a more detailed WIKI >>>> page if it's wanted. >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Andrew, >>> >>> Awesome stuff! I'm away on holiday at the moment, but interestingly, I'm >>> told my APCs arrived while I've been away, so your timing is nothing >>> short >>> of perfect. :) >>> >>> And since it ships with a 2.6.32.x kernel, it seems there might be a good >>> chance that the upstream kernel could be persuadable to build for it, >>> too. >>> >>> I'll try your instructions next week when I get home. >> >> >> Great, let me know what you find and enjoy your time off. > > > I'll try to get around to it in the next week or so. Thanks again for the > instructions. I'll set you up with a wiki account so you can add the info > there. I'll email you off list with the details.
Sounds good. > > >> I played around with the NAND all weekend and found that Wondermedia >> seems to have left out the mtdparts command from u-boot. Digging into >> their code a bit it seems they rewrote the nand cmd code so you can't >> just re-compile and enable it in u-boot. I fear I've hit my current >> knowledge limit with the u-boot code. Hopefully someone with a >> history of u-boot development can dig into it a bit. >> >> In messing around with the current u-boot I wiped the entire nand (but >> apparently not the mtd structure), afterwards I found if I pulled the > > > I would suggest you bring up the uboot stuff either on the Fedora ARM > mailing list or a uboot specific mailing list. I don't think we can really > be addressing this on RedSleeve distro level, it's really an upstream issue. > Absolutely, wasn't suggesting you all address it, just noting where I was. On a side note - is there any status on building updates from the PNAELV or a newer version of 6? I know it's a lot of work, just curious. Thanks. Andrew _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
