Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-31 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:31:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 July 2019 06:42:15 Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:02:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: (...) > Thanks everybody who has a clue. Gene, you have been repeatly asked to keep the postings on-topic.User

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 30 iul 19, 18:35:21, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 July 2019 15:42:14 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 30 iul 19, 06:02:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. > > > > [citation needed] > > Over the years I have had several

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 July 2019 15:42:14 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 30 iul 19, 06:02:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. > > [citation needed] Over the years I have had several logfile containing postings ejected because they were too big.

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 July 2019 06:42:15 Reco wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:02:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > That simple question is: > > > > > > > > What log file do you want to see? > > > > > > Assuming Debian defaults - /var/log/kern.log, > > > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 30 iul 19, 06:02:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. [citation needed] Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Reco
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:02:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > That simple question is: > > > > > > What log file do you want to see? > > > > Assuming Debian defaults - /var/log/kern.log, > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. This very e-mail that I'm

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 July 2019 09:17:37 Reco wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 07:56:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 05:08:49 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 July 2019 09:17:37 Reco wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 07:56:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 05:08:49 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-29 Thread Reco
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 07:56:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 29 July 2019 05:08:49 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 July 2019 05:08:49 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg stuff for > > > > > building packages is on the

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg stuff for > > > > building packages is on the missing list. Gr. > > > > > > apt install build-essential > > > > I *think* I did

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-28 Thread Reco
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 06:50:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg stuff for > > > > > building packages is on the missing list.

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 July 2019 00:27:36 Reco wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg stuff for > > > > building packages is on the missing list. Gr. > > > > > > apt install build-essential > > > > I *think* I did

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Reco
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:13:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > That, and a whole restaraunt sized menu of dpkg stuff for building > > > packages is on the missing list. Gr. > > > > apt install build-essential > > I *think* I did that. With synaptic. I gave it quite a list, it took >

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 July 2019 22:24:30 Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 06:20:23PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I was too lazy to dig out that USB TTL cable for the true console, > > > but I suppose that it won't interfere either. > > > > But I'm now missing bklid, and neither apt nor

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 July 2019 22:24:30 Reco wrote: > /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.dmesg_restrict=0 Well, I did that, and ran dmesg once as root. Self destructed 15 minutes later as I couldn't get it to do anything from an ssh login as me. And its an hour later and I still haven't been able to reboot,

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Reco
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 06:20:23PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I was too lazy to dig out that USB TTL cable for the true console, but > > I suppose that it won't interfere either. > > But I'm now missing bklid, and neither apt nor synaptic can find it to > install it. /sbin/blkid. It's in

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 July 2019 15:56:54 Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:51:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Second, some wishlist bugreports are in order. It's not an > > > installation that took the most of the effort, it's the camera > > > that's attached to the said RPi3. > > > > That

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Reco
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:51:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Second, some wishlist bugreports are in order. It's not an > > installation that took the most of the effort, it's the camera that's > > attached to the said RPi3. > > > That install nomograph says to disconnect ALL that stuff. ;-)

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 July 2019 15:46:59 Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:02:18PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me)

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Reco
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:02:18PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, > > > and information on how to

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 July 2019 15:38:38 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:11:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But this instruction also wants the debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso > > written to it, which is 250MiB and which if I use dd to follow this > > instruction: > > > >

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, > > and information on how to use them to build an installable > > kernel.deb for a rpi-3b. I know it

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:11:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > But this instruction also wants the debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso > written to it, which is 250MiB and which if I use dd to follow this > instruction: > > Extract the content of the Debian ISO you downloaded to the

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, > > and information on how to use them to build an installable > > kernel.deb for a rpi-3b. I know it

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, > > and information on how to use them to build an installable > > kernel.deb for a rpi-3b. I know it

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, > > and information on how to use them to build an installable > > kernel.deb for a rpi-3b. I know it

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-07-27, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools, and >> information on how to use them to build an installable kernel.deb for a >> rpi-3b. I know it can be done, I have witnessed apt

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 July 2019 17:19:12 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > So http://www.digi.com, and the 37 page "U-Boot Reference Manual" > > that you can download and print from their site is all BS? > > I don't know. I'd assume it's the doc that applies to a version of > U-Boot they distribute. Are you

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So http://www.digi.com, and the 37 page "U-Boot Reference Manual" that > you can download and print from their site is all BS? I don't know. I'd assume it's the doc that applies to a version of U-Boot they distribute. Are you using Digi's U-Boot? I'm not. I'm using the U-Boot from denx,

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 July 2019 15:50:08 Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 12:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Possibly good to know, but is not at all helpfull when you "make > > uImage" in a kernel src tree's top level directory and it terminates > > with a missing numerical argument, which I'm,

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-25 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 12:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Possibly good to know, but is not at all helpfull when you "make uImage" > in a kernel src tree's top level directory and it terminates with a > missing numerical argument, which I'm, assuming is the offset from lsn0 > in the dos /boot

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 July 2019 09:28:12 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > Are located at fixed offsets from the disks LSN0. > >> > >> I don't were you got that idea. > > ^^^ > know > > > From Digi, > >

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here: >> [...] >> > Are located at fixed offsets from the disks LSN0. >> I don't were you got that idea. ^^^ know > From Digi, That's rather vague. > who own the copyrights since they announced it in 2001.

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 July 2019 08:54:42 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here: > > [...] > > > Are located at fixed offsets from the disks LSN0. > > I don't were you got that idea. From Digi, who own the copyrights since they announced it in 2001. > Or

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here: [...] > Are located at fixed offsets from the disks LSN0. I don't were you got that idea. Or maybe you're using a non-mainline U-Boot. The mainline U-Boot I'm using on my Banana-Pis can find the files it needs (including boot.scr) in

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-23 Thread Florian La Roche
Hello Gene Heskett, Am Di., 23. Juli 2019 um 14:49 Uhr schrieb Gene Heskett : > I have several realtime patched kernels, built for armhf that I'd like to > try, but they are all built in the std grub-like format, and that will > not install to a u-boot system. I've uploaded my script to

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 July 2019 09:12:21 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > So what tools do I use to build an installable kernel deb for a > > u-boot system? > > I'm not sure what you mean. The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here: pi@picnc:~ $ ls -la /boot total 35466 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So what tools do I use to build an installable kernel deb for a u-boot > system? I'm not sure what you mean. My BananaPi here uses the stock Debian kernels without any trouble. Both the vmlinuz and the dtb files are read as-is by U-Boot. The only thing I need to do is to package the initrd

making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have just surveyed the deb-* and dpkg-* stuffs in the amd64 repo's (and in the armhf repos too) without finding a single occurrence of the u-boot string, yet I have seen kernel debs that were built in the u-boot format. What repo do I need to use to find a