dCore Import Debian Packages to Mountable SCE extensions > Allwinner A10
Towards Microcore on Allwinner A10
roberts:
Karl, The script that I have started is generic. Porint it at a Debian repository,i.e., your closest mirror, as would be the case with a Debian install. So no, not Raspbian specific. links.tcz + dependency tczs are from Debain Wheezy armv7h. Like I said I have not yet had a chance to consider boot.scr possibilities yet. Much to do, but progress is certainly happening. At the moment my script is 3/4 done, some parts I am still doing manually, but the concepts are all there. I will post it as soon as I reach first milestone. Both A10 and Raspberry Pi will benefit, in fact, any other port of Core to any other Arm device, which Debian has already been ported should benefit as well. Keep posting about your progress as well.
roberts:
Given the fact that these Allwinner devices currently boot from a know source, I have automated the update of the boot codes.
Presently we have the typical showbootcodes command. I now have an updbootcodes command which based on the environment variable EDITOR allows easy editing of extra boot commands. We trust users to be able to edit grub/menu.lst, syslinux.conf, etc. So too, I have transparently scripted the unpacking of boot.scr dumping the contents into an editor and upon exit of editor, dynamically compile a new boot.scr. Update occurs only if no detectable errors. Then reboot to effect.
So now...
I am using a pendrive for my backup and extensions. It is recognized and is easily available via
the standard mount /mnt/sda1. You can backup and restore from it, you can tce-setdrive it.
You can tce-load -i links and it will use the link /etc/sysconfig/tcedir. All that seems to be working.
And now you can easily specify the usual boot commands by using the updbootcodes program e.g., waitusb=5:LABEL=melepen tce=LABEL=melepen tz=PST+8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2
onboot works as expected and automatic restore work as expected!
I will do some more testing and then post an updated image with this new updbootcodes command.
roberts:
Now posted 20120917 image. See: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/armv7/
This has the new updbootcodes.
This allows easy editing of the systems's boot codes file to add Core specific boot codes.
roberts:
Now posted 20120920 image. See: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/armv7/
Fixed more library issues.
karlmw:
I'm running the 20120920 image on my mini-x.
I've added the kernel modules posted on ibiblio, along with some bodgy scripting and a bunch of Debian Wheezy armhf packages.
So, now I can ssh into the mini-x via wifi - a great success :-)
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