[Arm-netbook] It arrived in the post just now!

[Henrik Nordström]

fre 2013-08-02 klockan 00:08 -0400 skrev Ryan Mullen:

> However, what exactly would the procedure be for this EOMA68-A20? I
> assume that I short the UBOOT jumper and power up, which might place
> me in FEL mode.

Yes.

Or by connecting UART and pressing the right key during boot1 (1 or 2, I
don't remember, one is FEL, the other usb-storage mode, always mix them
up)

Or by destroying NAND contents so the normal boot always fails.

>  In this mode I should be able to do something
> interesting, and the documentation on the sunxi wiki says I should use
> LiveSuit and a USB cable. Is fel-boot a replacement for LiveSuit? It's
> a little unclear. How do I get to enter the fel commands on the
> USBBoot wiki page? Does it give me a ttyUSB or something?

It's not yet a "replacement for livesuit", but it does give you a fully
controlled boot process using USB, including the ability to boot a
kernel + initrd with USB serial or USB networking if you prefer. I.e.
much better than livesuit for most of us :)

The fel command and associated usb-boot shell script is in sunxi-tools.
The usb-boot just automates the steps needed to transfer u-boot + kernel
+ initrd over USB using the fel command.

u-boot (and the initial u-boot fel spl) is in sunxi u-boot. EOMA68-A20
support is in the sunxi-current branch, soon to be merged into the
standard sunxi branch (only need to run a couple more tests firsts).

fel-boot was an earlier name for this thing before support got properly
integrated into the sunxi u-boot tree. RIP fel-boot.

Regards
Henrik