[Arm-netbook] Booting A10 Tablet from sdcard

[Frank Zambrini]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:58:37 +0200
Henrik Nordström <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:

> Ok. That only details the installation of u-boot boot loader. You also
> neef an OS installed on the sdcard.
> 
> And what kernel & rootfs are you using?

I built 2.6.36 from /allwinner/linux-2.6.36
For that particular 'experiment' I didn't use a rootfs. I figured as
long as the kernel was able to boot it would either turn on the LCD via
kms or write some logs to the sdcard. 

I also tried using various nightly images from
dl.linux-sunxi.org/nightly

For those I used u-boot, kernel and rootfs from the image.

I may also try the wheezy image here:
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/a10_image/

> That is normal. u-boot only talks on serial port.
> 
> LCD is configured by the operating system.

Is there a way to connect to the serial port via usb? Similar to adb?