[U-Boot] u-boot on dockstar problem - ** Bad partition 1 **

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Roland,

> If you don`t like me or like my mail style - no problem, i can go away and 
> switch to another bootloader or maybe even other hardware platform. 

Please stay and report your findings.

[...]

>> You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are
>> running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with
>> out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known
>> in the mainline U-Boot repository.  How should we be able to comment
>> on code we don't even know?
>
> Apparently you are right. I did not realize that this is a modified version
> ( http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/build_uboot.htm ) and apparently the 
> changes (add pogoplug/dockstar, seems much LED stuff) have never been sent 
> upstream. 
>
> Anyway,the patch at http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/uboot.mtd3.patch
> does not seem to poke into the u-boot usb code, so i wonder if the changes
> can be source of the problem.

Probably not, but it is good to know what exact configuration you test
with.  As I said, this is a pre-requisite to interpreting the results of
your tests.  

However I have to warn you that not many people here on this mailing
list have the time to interpret results for non-mainline code.

> I have seen posts from sheevaplug users which report similar issue,
> and as it seems, official support for sheevaplug is already in
> u-boot. Maybe there is a way to add official support for pogoplug and
> dockstar, as this out-of-tree stuff sucks big.... 

Of course there is a possibility - simply post the patches on the
mailing list.  They _have to go_ through the regular peer review process
which usually fixes bugs and improves quality.  Please ask the initial
authors of the version you use to do this.  If they do not want to do
this, someone else (even you) can at least start to post the patches
here so they can be reviewed.

Cheers
  Detlev

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