[Meego-porting] [pandaboard] Creating Pandaboard MeeGo image with MIC without manual partitioning

[Nishanth Menon]

Nishanth Menon wrote, on 03/04/2011 07:55 PM:
> Marko Saukko wrote, on 03/04/2011 07:09 PM:
>> On 03/04/2011 03:03 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>> Sage,
>>> Marko Saukko wrote, on 03/04/2011 01:07 PM:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I created a small blog post for proof that it is possible to create a
>>>> pandaboard MeeGo image without doing the manual partitioning that
>>>> currently is guided in the MeeGo wiki pages (http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/
>>>> OMAP4_Panda/private-demo). This post can be read from my blog:
>>>> http://sagestechblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/creating-bootable-pandaboard-meego.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is cool work. thanks for doing this. I am looping in Meego-porting
>>> to keep the list informed as well.
>>>
>>> it would be great to have your branch in mic2 mainline if possible
>>>
>>>
>>
>> All of the mic2 patches are already in the mic git master. There just
>> haven't been any official version releases of that yet.
> cool. thanks.
>>
>> Also it should be noted that in addition to the mic fix that was done
>> some time ago there is need to have some x-loader patches (especially
>> the patch that fixes the hard coded 63 sector requirement of the vfat
>> partition). I compiled x-loader myself from sources that I knew working
>> and this x-loader is available at
>>
>> http://build.meego.com/project/packages?project=home%3Amarko.saukko%3Apandaboard
>>
>>
>
>>
>> The x-loader in pandademo2 project didn't work at all in my tests, not
>> sure why because it seems to have the required fix as well.
>>
>> http://build.meego.com/package/view_file?file=0008-FAT-partition-fix.patch&package=x-loader-omap4panda&project=home%3Anm%3Apandademo2&srcmd5=35beea80a52e5cee041f59442b019617
>>
>
> I had pushed the x-loader support to mainline x-loader.
> btw, in reality, I am going a bit slow with x-loader as the "tiny
> u-boot" or SPL [1] is coming to a reality now with Aneesh's patches to
> u-boot mainline tree. I'd rather throw the crap of x-loader away and use
> pure mainline u-boot soon.. that'd save us a bunch of trouble with
> beagle and panda + enable Meego to easily go onto more platforms which
> have u-boot mainline support.
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=129889371302035&w=2
better link.. oops.. sorry for the noise..
[1] http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=129889363801882&w=2

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon