Hi there. I got two new IGEPv2 boards over the weekend. They're now happily running linux-linaro 2.6.35-1001.5.
I made the following changes: * Statically link USB mass storage support so that I can use my USB HDD as a rootfs * Statically link in SMSC911x/921x support for future use as a NFS root * Turn off CONFIG_FIXED_PHY to prevent a sysfs conflict with the network card driver * Strip back the kernel features to fit within the default 3 MB NAND partition
The NAND partitions are a bit messy. I know we want to be compatible, but the small kernel partition and lack of a initrd partition are messy.
-- Michael
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:39:03AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote:
Hi there. I got two new IGEPv2 boards over the weekend. They're now happily running linux-linaro 2.6.35-1001.5.
I made the following changes:
[...]
- Turn off CONFIG_FIXED_PHY to prevent a sysfs conflict with the
network card driver
- Strip back the kernel features to fit within the default 3 MB NAND
partition
Hmmm. I take these two changes required to mean that our shipping omap3 kernel won't work on IGEPv2s unmodified. If so, is this something we'd like to fix pre-November?
The fixed phy is a blocker - you can't modprobe the network driver with it turned on.
-- Michael
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:39:03AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote:
Hi there. I got two new IGEPv2 boards over the weekend. They're now happily running linux-linaro 2.6.35-1001.5.
I made the following changes:
[...]
* Turn off CONFIG_FIXED_PHY to prevent a sysfs conflict with the network card driver * Strip back the kernel features to fit within the default 3 MB NAND partition
Hmmm. I take these two changes required to mean that our shipping omap3 kernel won't work on IGEPv2s unmodified. If so, is this something we'd like to fix pre-November? -- Christian Robottom Reis | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | http://launchpad.net/~kiko Linaro Engineering VP | [ +1] 612 216 4935 | http://async.com.br/~kiko
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.orgwrote:
Hi there. I got two new IGEPv2 boards over the weekend. They're now happily running linux-linaro 2.6.35-1001.5.
I made the following changes:
- Statically link USB mass storage support so that I can use my USB
HDD as a rootfs
hmm. Those should have been in initramfs iirc. I assume you did not install the kernel as a package?
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.orgwrote:
hmm. Those should have been in initramfs iirc. I assume you did not
install
the kernel as a package?
Correct. I'm afraid I'm doing things in a random way.
Out of interest, where would the initramfs go in NAND?
You could check the flash-kernel code from lucid to see where we put it for beagle:
dget -x https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/flash-kernel_2.13u...
Cheers,
-
Alexander Sack -
Christian Robottom Reis -
Michael Hope