[Arm-netbook] Framebuffer support - Mele A1000

[Henrik Nordström]

sön 2012-04-08 klockan 18:06 +0200 skrev Gerardo Di Iorio:
> Hi,
>  i try to boot linux kernel for mele A1000, but not work.
> I have create uImage , u-boot-spl-mmc.bin and u-boot.bin
> following the instructions on the wiki.

Those instructions are slightly incomplete, and not yet usable without a
serial console. Added a note about it now.

> Next i have create on sd card the partitions
> 
> [root at lxf16 mele]# fdisk -lu /dev/sdd
> 
> Disco /dev/sdd: 998 MB, 998768640 byte
> 31 testine, 62 settori/tracce, 1014 cilindri, totale 1950720 settori
> Unità = settori di 1 * 512 = 512 byte
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Identificativo disco: 0x21b0839f
> 
> Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdd1   *        2048       34815       16384    c  W95 FAT32
> (LBA)
> /dev/sdd2           34816     1950719      957952   83  Linux
> 
> and copy uImage and boot.scr on the vfat partition.
> The boot.scr is generated with this command:

Toms u-boot-mmc do not support boot.scr. I have activated the needed
support in my version but not yet a default environment that looks for a
boot.scr.


> and the file boot.cmd have this content
> 
> mmcinfo; fatload mmc 0 50000000 uImage ;bootm 50000000`


This is what I use as boot command:

  fatload mmc 0 0x43000000 script.bin; fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 ${kernel}; bootm 0x48000000

> Next i have write u-boot-spl-mmc.bin and u-boot.bin with this commads:
> 
> dd if=u-boot-spl-mmc.bin of=/dev/sdd bs=1024 seek=8
> dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/sdd bs=1024 seek=32

Ok.

> I have insert this sd on my mele box, but i not have output on my hdmi
> screen(the kernel have the hdmi and console framebuffer option
> built-in)
> 
> I not have an serial cable for debug!!!! 

Get one!

> The procedure is right????

Almost. There is no final procedure yet..

Regards
Henrik