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Towards Microcore on Allwinner A10
roberts:
Posted an update: a10Core-20120928.img.gz
This brings the image up to 4.6.2 base and also changes provides from cgi to zsync'ed local database.
karlmw:
Thanks to Robert's clear notes - http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,13827.90.html - I have successfully built extra modules for my mini-x, despite committing a newbie mistake on my first attempt. I tried to build modules without building the kernel first (ie. I didn't follow the instructions), assuming that the makefile would take care of any dependencies. I was mistaken - it appears that successful module building depends on some files which are created during the kernel build process. Attempting to load one of my bad modules gives this error:
modprobe: can't load module fuse (kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko): invalid module format
with this in dmesg:
fuse: no symbol version for module_layout
I was using the fuse module for testing because it was one I already had a good copy of, so could confirm that the good one could be loaded OK. Now that I have built a kernel, everything is fine - my modules work with the existing a10core kernel.
I did the build in an x86 TinyCore VM (running inside qemu on windows). Needed to load two more tcz's which weren't mentioned in the notes (but were pretty obvious from the errors) - compiletc and ncurses-dev. There's also a missing dependency for a "mkimage" command - this just means I didn't get the final kernel file out of it all. That's OK for now - I didn't want my own kernel. I imagine that grabbing mkimage from Debian would work.
Unfortunately for me, my module building has not been immediately productive - I have got my USB-serial adapter working, but it seems that the adapter doesn't work with my onewire interface anyway.
On an unrelated note, I'm now using sftp-server from the Debian Wheezy openssh package to handle sftp with dropbear. So, now I can ssh into the mini-x, and use sftp as well. I was getting tired of having to shuffle a flashdrive back and forth between machines.
poshat:
--- Quote from: roberts on September 11, 2012, 09:28:37 PM ---Karl, I will post my modules directory. If all you want is 8192 its in there!
Wait while I upload if.
....
Done: Look for allwinner-sunxi-v3.0.39-modules.tgz in the armv7 directory.
--- End quote ---
How correct add this modules to flash card?
Now I'm using Army only with command line, because system can't tune wifi device without modules.
roberts:
I have posted 8192cu.tcz for wireless support typically found in Allwinner devices. Find it in the armv7 repository.
Also posted in the armv7 repo is wifi.sh. However, you will need to import wireless-tools and if needed wpa-supplicant. Both were found to be very easy imports.
Later, I will produce a README for wireless, when demands of my time lessen, or anyone else volunteers.
roberts:
Just for kicks, I have moved my tce directory onto the internal nand drive.
I found much free spaces on nandd.
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