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Towards Microcore on Allwinner A10
roberts:
Thanks for your script. I will take a look.
I know of creating the sdcard and uCore. I have been overwriting the original uCore with my updated uCore.
But typically one dd the sdcard to an image file. I presume you are using some count= with dd as you wouldn't want 4GB or 8GB image.
Are you just summing up the four files +1MB for the count. That is my question.
caminati:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 25, 2012, 05:41:41 PM ---Thanks for your script. I will take a look.
I know of creating the sdcard and uCore. I have been overwriting the original uCore with my updated uCore.
But typically one dd the sdcard to an image file. I presume you are using some count= with dd as you wouldn't want 4GB or 8GB image.
Are you just summing up the four files +1MB for the count. That is my question.
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I only know where partitions are inside the device, not where the files are inside a given partition, so I do
--- Code: ---dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=p+1 | gzip > img.gz
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where p is the size of the first partition, which contains everything.
The optimal value of p would hence be the minimal one to fit all four files; as a rough guess I made it 8.
roberts:
OK. I did a du -h on first( only) partition. Results 5.8MB so I rounded 6 +1 = 7MB
It boots OK for me. Note that I changed the font to 12 so you may want to use the larger font if on tablet.
Also it has my mele script.bin. Anyway, have a go it can be found at
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/arm/armv7
karlmw:
I have tested the image posted on my 512M mini-x. It boots fine; USB hub and keyboard works; SD card is mountable; and a USB flash drive works.
Didn't need to fiddle with script.bin - it works fine as it is. It seems to me that mele script.bin is reasonably compatible with mini-x.
dmesg (file attached) reports some unhappiness with the ethernet NIC built-in to the processor, but there is no physical ethernet port on the mini-x, so that's not a big problem at the moment.
Given the lack of a physical ethernet port, I look forward to some modules being built so I can use my USB-NIC and access the mini-X remotely. Can you point me to information on where to get modules (if you've grabbed them from elsewhere) or configs/toolchain for building them myself? Thanks.
For people not familiar with the mini-x, have a look at the miniand website - they have some nice teardown photos.
Thanks for all the work - just a week ago I was thinking that the mini-x might be a long term project for me (with slow progress on my own), but it looks now like it is all going to come together :-)
suzuke:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 25, 2012, 06:26:36 PM ---OK. I did a du -h on first( only) partition. Results 5.8MB so I rounded 6 +1 = 7MB
It boots OK for me. Note that I changed the font to 12 so you may want to use the larger font if on tablet.
Also it has my mele script.bin. Anyway, have a go it can be found at
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I have tested roberts's image on my gemei G2, but it reboots again and again for loop.
I will test it again on my other A10 machine later.
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Edit:
I use caminati's image (A10MicroCoreBeta0.1.tar.bz2) and replace the uCore to roberts's uCore then it works.
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