[Arm-netbook] Mele A1000: SATA HD does not work

[Alejandro Martínez]

The .bin files are used by the kernel to set different parameters.
You can get a plaintext format version of them (in an ini-like format
called .fex) by using this tool from Alejandro Mery:
https://github.com/amery/sunxi-tools
It can be compiled back by using this closed-source tool (only
available in binary form): http://eiffel.itram.es/files/script

I tried to pinpoint (diffing both .fex'es and trying to make an
intermediate version between both) what is wrong, but my SD crashed on
the meantime. Maybe a Wiki page to join efforts would be nice to have,
I might create it now...


Alejandro

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Barry Kauler <bkauler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/6/12, cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
> > On 03/05/2012 23:29, Barry Kauler wrote
> >> Hmmm... could someone kindly just post me a evb.bin that I can put
> >> into my skeleton SD card image, one that will recognise SATA,
> >> ethernet, and not crash when X starts :)
> >>
> >> I notice also, the a10_image page, mele_boot_part.cpio has mele.bin
> >> and mele_stock.bin in it -- what is the difference between those two?
> >> I tried both, it didn't seem to make any difference.
> >>
> >> If anyone can help out, kindly email them to me, bkaulerATgmailDOTcom.
> > I've tried mele_stock.bin (copied it over evb.bin), and Ethernet and X
> > (VGA output) seem to work fine.
> >
> > However, I have to insert the Wifi module 8192cu manually now to have
> > WiFi working, or ifup wlan0 would just hang.
> >
>
> Ah, thanks.
> This is one point where I was confused. There are evb.bin, mele.bin
> and mele_stock.bin in the first partition of the Debian build.
>
> I did not understand why there are three different .bin files, and
> what each one did.
>
> So, evb.bin is the only one in use, the others are just alternatives
> that can be renamed to evb.bin if required to be used?
>
> Regards,
> Barry Kauler
>
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