[Arm-netbook] arm-netbook Digest, Vol 25, Issue 82

[Peter Steenbergen]

I am about to dump the Linaro build over the fence as I will go on
holidays. It is not ready / as I want it to be but time is getting
short.

In the /boot/ folder I created a small bash script executing the two
commands needed to create/update the initramfs. You have to run this
on the device it self, so you can not do this on the build server. You
can however include the files  in the hardware pack similar as the
libraries.

I will post the howto soon, but as a remark you will need to include
the "boot.scr" support into your build script as the standard way only
loads the kernel into memory and does not search for the initramfs at
the allocated memory address. Would advise you to do that anyway as
you then don't have to apply some rootwait patch as you can just
include it into the kernel boot-params.

Hang on and I will, post the steps a bit later this week.

Cheers,
Peter

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:09 AM, cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
> On 25/07/2012 01:39, Peter Steenbergen wrote:
>
> Here ya go; script.fex straight from the uHost / OvalElephant stick
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Peter Steenbergen
> <p.steenbergen at j1nx.nl> wrote:
>
> I've got a Aino.fex at
> https://github.com/cnxsoft/a10-config/tree/master/script.fex. I wonder
> if it is the same as yours.
> If it is not, you may want to create a pull request to add your fex
> file, and I could add one line to my build script to generate an
> hardware pack for Ainol Novo tablet.
>
> Which remind me to send you the FEX for the uHost / Ovalelephant
> stick. Will decode the bin tonight.
>
>
> I've added it to github
> (https://github.com/cnxsoft/a10-config/blob/master/script.fex/oval-elephant.fex)
> and to the nightly build script
> (https://github.com/cnxsoft/a10-tools/blob/master/nightly.sh)
> ) by adding the line
>
> bldhwpack oval-elephant .
>
>
> If others want to add their devices (AYOD),  I've added a section "How to
> add a new device to the nightly build" to the Wiki at
> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/nightly_build_images
>
> Btw, there is no initramfs now in the hardware pack, since I know you have
> in your build, could you provide the instructions or a script when time
> permits?
> The other thing is that all Linux distro may not need an initramfs, so I'm
> not sure how I could handle that.
>
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