[Arm-netbook] CT-PC89E: don't try to use http://ftp.uk.debian.org to upgrade libc6

[Oliver Kiddle]

--- On Tue, 23/2/10, JLB <j at twu.net> wrote:

> Serial port? That's easy; there are plenty of USB-to-serial dongles. ;)

But is that going to be supported by U-boot and the kernel? I want a serial port so that I can see what's happening when the thing is booting and perhaps type in U-Boot commands to do things like a tftp boot.

The U-boot image includes things like:
bootargs=root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait init=/init console=ttySAC0,115200
bootcmd=movi read kernel c0008000 0;bootm c0008000

So in theory, I might edit that to ttyUSB0 with a hex editor. Ideally, it would be possible to use the device as it's own console given that it has a screen and a keyboard.

By the way, I tried out the chroots and (as I expected) the arm one works while the armel one doesn't.

I've also looked at the SDK on mid-linux.org. It contains the cross-compiler setup but no indication of the config for the kernel and bootloader. The PDF files do contain information that might be of use later.

Oliver