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Towards Microcore on Allwinner A10
roberts:
@caminati, Sorry but I did not have any success with your kernel & rootfs. But it is likely because I don't have an Allwinner tablet.
Probably a script.bin (evb.bin) or some such. Seems Allwinner just about needs hardware packs of specific boot bin files.
Anyway, I am extending my kit methodology to my Allwinner A10 Mele. I believe I had Core booting. But alas I need to add X to be sure. So I continue with great hope for a mele-kit.
caminati:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 14, 2012, 04:14:54 PM ---@caminati, Sorry but I did not have any success with your kernel & rootfs. But it is likely because I don't have an Allwinner tablet.
Probably a script.bin (evb.bin) or some such. Seems Allwinner just about needs hardware packs of specific boot bin files.
Anyway, I am extending my kit methodology to my Allwinner A10 Mele. I believe I had Core booting. But alas I need to add X to be sure. So I continue with great hope for a mele-kit.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for testing it, I hope it didn't waste too much of your time.
I have not clear if you got any other distro successfully booting on your Mele: in this case you should stick with the corresponding script.bin, evb.bin, sun4i-spl.bin and u-boot.bin to couple with other kernels and rootfs'.
I am working in a much less general way than you're doing with your kits.
I think I have a good initrd for Core, but I am going mad after u-boot: I'm having no success in passing it an initramfs (been working with a standard rootfs til now).
Heck, I am not even managing to pass it any boot parameter, while I have some showing up in /proc/cmdline from nowhere.
Going to ask for help on arm-netbook, and hope I can understand what's going on.
Regarding how to make sure you successfully booted: without fbcon and hardware console, you can rely on usb pens flashing, and on /var/log: in my rootfs I placed klogd at the beginning of init right for this reason.
To complicate matters, my microsd's all show some remarkable inconstancy: they boot roughly just half the times.
caminati:
I packed a much more complete port of Micro Core, not even an alpha, though.
I am uploading it right now:
caminati.net.tf
or, equivalently:
https://sites.google.com/site/marcocaminati/
It is a tar.bz2 with the separate components to be installed manually, if anybody wants a whole media image for simplicity, I can provide it.
Anyhow: now Core scripts are all there, even though actually tc-config is not completing yet.
Refer to the included README.
There I also explain the approach I adopted to port, somehow more streamlined than before, after seeing Robert's Rpi kit.
caminati:
I took a screenshot from /dev/fb0 via rawtoppm (well, no camera or whatsoever here). See attachment (I don't know why the background turned out to be grayish, it is actually white). Boot time is about 10 seconds :)
Ok, tc-config does little of what it is supposed to do, still...
curaga:
Dear god that font :P
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