[U-Boot] KIRKWOOD - PARTITIONS and BOOTSTRAP

[Rick Thomas]

I have an OpenRD base and ultimate, as well as a couple of sheevaplug machines, that I would be willing to use to help test anything that might make it possible to install and run Debian Jessie on these machine types.

I’m an experienced sysadmin and I’ve worked in the past as a software tester, but I’m not much of a kernel or uboot hacker.  If you can provide detailed instructions, I’ll give it a try and provide detailed reports on my results.

Let me know what you’d like me to test.

Enjoy!
Rick

On Apr 7, 2015, at 10:24 PM, drEagle <drEagle at DOUKKI.NET> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Le 07/04/2015 02:39, Tom Rini a écrit :
>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 06:13:18PM +0200, drEagle wrote:
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>>> Le 03/04/2015 23:46, Vagrant Cascadian a écrit :
>>>> On 2015-03-25, drEagle wrote:
>>>>> Le 21/03/2015 15:53, Vagrant Cascadian a écrit :
>>>>>> It seems that OpenRD Ultimate with u-boot 2015.04-rc3 and newer no
>>>>>> longer builds from source, both in Debian and with mainline git. It
>>>>>> appears to have overgrown the size limits set for it:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looks like the NAND partition map had to be changed to give more space for u-boot.
>>>> 
> ...
>>>> I'll likely remove openrd_ultimate from future uploads to Debian if I
>>>> can't get confirmation about how to fix this properly.
>>> 
>>> The same may be a problem for SHEEVAPLUG and GURUPLUG, may be also all KIRKWOOD derivatives.
>>> We need to get a more robust and compatible way to define the NAND PARTS, the BOOTLOAD and the NAND UPGRADE.
>>> Each distribution has differents needs.
>>> 
>>> It's a discution needed upstream because it ill impact all distribution and users.
>> 
>> It's possible that by removing some CONFIG options things can fit under
>> the size limit and not require env to be moved.
> 
> I do not agree with a stay in the past situation.
> I have proposed these refresh to help kirkwood plugs become useable.
> This is a platform that was looking promising and had also been not so user frendly in the beginning.
> The features like the sheevaplug MMC/SD driver was a pain.
> UBOOT have greatly gain in a peace of software more robust that in was few years ago.
> For Kirkwood Sheevaplugs we have also a device, SD cards, which was simply unuseable.
> 
> So I decided to get this driver upstream.
> 
> So what now ?
> USB layer get fixed.
> IDE layer get fixed.
> UBIFS is a new standard.
> EXT4 support helpfull.
> DEVICETREE is needed for linux kernel support.
> 
> What I proposed is to get a refresh for :
> - - The NAND partitions (with a possible study to be friendly with most distributions around)
> - - To discuss about the better BOOTSTRAP method (I may used a script, propose defaults ENV. We may need to boot from IDE, USB, NAND, NET, ...)
> 
> It's an open discussion to get a friendly users, understand with the lesser patch in each distribution, with the most possibility afford.
> 
> I do not think that, all around customisation is the solution.
> 
> Enjoy
> Gérald
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