[Arm-netbook] A10 image size change

[Davin Gibb]

Hi Tom, we are doing a full livesuite image here, and repacking. Its
not just an upgrade, but a full image update on flash. Emilio I'm not
100% sure what you mean in-device, I am simply rebuilding the
livesuite image from scratch. This is what I did;

After changing the BoardConfig and sys_config.fex I issued make (not
make clean, just make) and then 'packed' the images and flashed the
device with livesuite.

Should we do a make clean? Should I re-make the kernel too? When the
device boots u-boot sees the partition with the correct size. I also
took the compiled system.img and used sim2img and can mount this on my
own host with no errors?

I'm sure I'm missing something basic here?

Clueless... Davin.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Emilio López <turl at linux-sunxi.org> wrote:
> El mié 08 ago 2012 22:03:11 ART, Tom Cubie escribió:
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Davin Gibb <davin.gibb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all, the image size of my A10 build had to grow beyond the original 256mb
>>> and to support this I made the below changes.... However for the life of me
>>> I can't get the system to boot anymore :(
>>>
>>> 1. update the BoardConfig.mk to 536870912
>>> 2. update the sys_config.fex to [partition3] name = system, size_lo = 524288
>>>
>>> I also made sure I did a format when I upgraded my board. But when the board
>>> boots the mount returns -1 for /dev/block/nandd? Any thoughts? Anyone have
>>> to increase img size?
>> where do you change the sys_config.fex?
>> The partition size of allwinner nand can not be changed after a
>> livesuite image is made because of the bad design. If you want to
>> change the nand size, you need to re-pack a livesuite image.
>
> If you only need it changed in-device, you can use a (very recent)
> source built kernel with the "expose nand" patch + nand-part from
> sunxi-tools. You will need to reformat partitions as needed after
> resizing stuff.
>
>
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