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

[Alejandro Martínez]

(Sorry for the attachment, Luke)

Here's the script.bin I found on the Mele ICS beta (which is quite
beta-ish). Try with this one, it is different to the one on the
Gingerbread releases and something might work again.

http://eiffel.itram.es/files/script.bin


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:33 PM, cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 18:59, Alejandro Martínez wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
> In u-boot if you type printenv, it will show load1, load2 and load3
> variables with the three bin files
> e.g. load1=fatload mmc 0 43000000 evb.bin
>
> but the boot command only uses evb.bin
> bootcmd=run load1 boot_mmc
>
> I've deleted mele.bin and sys_config.mele.mod.bin, and it still works.
> So I suppose you are right they are just alternatives.
>
>
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