Hi, On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 02:42 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 14:41 +0100, Jasmin Schnatterbeck wrote: > > Package: flash-kernel > > Version: 3.13 > > Severity: important > > > > The device DB is missing support for the Mirabox. > > > > Proposal: > > Thanks for this. > > Perhaps you could also add some information to > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOn ? >
The process is very similar to the one of the Dreamplug - may I can integrate this as soon as kernel support/package is determined: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739972 > > Machine: Globalscale Mirabox > > Kernel-Flavors: armmp > > DTB-Id: armada-370-mirabox.dtb > > DTB-Append: yes > > Is this really required on new platform like this? > > I would expect that a newish system would have a u-boot which supports > FDT natively rather that via appending. Does loading the dtb at some > address and adding that address as a third argument to the "bootz" or > "bootm" command work? > > On the other hand you say the u-boot is quite old so maybe this is > correct, I just wanted to check that you didn't just copy this bit from > an older platform. yes, unfortunately the bootloader is old and does not support FDT. May there will be a DT-capable bootloader from the manufacturer in the future, but I am not sure about that. > > > U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x00008000 > > U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x0 > > Boot-Device: /dev/sdb1 > > Boot-Kernel-Path: uImage > > Boot-Initrd-Path: uInitrd > > Boot-DTB-Path: dtb > > Required-Packages: u-boot-tools > > Bootloader-Sets-Root: no > > This is now called Bootloader-Sets-Incorrect-Root. OK; found in commit 850c8fc323bbab52a6264035d11edd372ce2596f The bootloader sets some UBI device on internal NAND as "root" without changes... but as the u-boot env variables need to be adapted anyway for booting from the SD Card, it is preferred, that the kernel command-line-parameter for root works as expected. > > OOI do you know if mainline u-boot getting any support for this device > (whether based on the vendor's version or not)? > As far as I know, there are no efforts to mainline the u-boot-support. There are some experiments regarding the barebox bootloader, but currently with serial port support only. http://free-electrons.com/blog/barebox-2013-07/ The old u-boot seems to be the only bootloader that works reasonable in order to boot the device... Jasmin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1393767429.8639.40.camel@genesis