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Towards Microcore on Allwinner A10
caminati:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 18, 2012, 05:39:05 PM ---No response that I can detect when I try:
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This is interesting, anyway. Sounds like the problem is not video output or framebuffer, but more serious.
I will try to summon some more mele owners on other allwinner forums as soon I fix some issues.
caminati:
We have a second piece of hardware booting something on hdmi:
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/development/topics/minimal-textonly-linux-testers-wanted
A kind user on miniand forum gave me feedback using his 1Gb MK802, and a stripped-down version of console linux I posted there.
I can get a script.bin from the huge image he used, though it is not clear if he tried it with my kernel and u-boot.
EDIT: Here it is
roberts:
Seeing that you posted a new image file: A10MinimalLinux.img.gz
I tried it with mele-a1000.bin renamed to script.bin.
Viola! I see text. Very LARGE text. It boots to login!
But this is not uCore, initramfs as was the first attempt.
This is why I am delaying initramfs on rpi until I get the basics, traditional rootfs working.
Anyway, you have reached a first milestone. Awesome!
caminati:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 19, 2012, 10:14:55 PM ---Seeing that you posted a new image file: A10MinimalLinux.img.gz
I tried it with mele-a1000.bin renamed to script.bin.
Viola! I see text. Very LARGE text. It boots to login!
But this is not uCore, initramfs as was the first attempt.
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You're right: it is just busybox, bterm and a very sleepy init, which just mounts devpts and respawns getty->bterm.
On the other hand, here I have full Micro Core working on the tablet, with only zcache kernel module missing, and tce-load -i working fine.
So, the real question now is why my previous file didn't work for you.
u-boot.bin, sun4i-spl.bin and the kernel are identical, and I have no control on script.bin. So it must necessarily be /init or /bin/busybox, which changed, or /etc/tc-config, which is here bypassed. Or something with initramfs.
And why the very first release also didn't work for you? That was VERY similar to this.
Only the boot loaders and script were left out there; maybe...
Mumble, very difficult to troubleshoot remotely :)
--- Quote from: roberts on August 19, 2012, 10:14:55 PM ---This is why I am delaying initramfs on rpi until I get the basics, traditional rootfs working.
Anyway, you have reached a first milestone. Awesome!
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Glad it works :)
roberts:
uCore now working.
Used the image file. Copied the boot.scr from first attempt together with uCore to first partition. Formatted the 2nd partition and left blank.
Boots and is working fine.
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