[Arm-netbook] EOMA-68 Boots Android and plays youtube videos very well

[luke.leighton]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:12 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 11:47 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:42 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >  btw.  joe.  darling.  we need you to try henrik's u-boot tricks to
>> > see if the ethernet's working.  they're on the boot page now.
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > I am looking at http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/a20/boot/
>> >
>> > "need arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.4"  do you mean  gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi ?
>>
>>  i mean what i said [context being debian, with emdebian toolchains, apologies]
>
>
> Ah naming difference in ubuntu.
> We are both correct.

 :)

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>
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>> > Also git clone http://git.hands.com/linux.git doesn't work with some kind of header error message
>>
>> works fine here, although i only let that run for 30 seconds or so.
>>
>> please remember if you get errors to report them in full, otherwise
>> nobody can help you.  if you'd reported the full error message i could
>> have passed it on to phil, who can check by looking at the logs on the
>> server.
>
>
> Apologies I wasn't meaning to whine, I was merely reporting whilst
> googling for answers.

 you're not [i didn't see it as "whining"].  but, we established what
the problem is [unreliable internet connection and no retries]

> I tried Henrik's repository as well and got different problems,
> but eventually managed one time to do a git clone.

 yes.  now that you've got that, you can now add the hands.com repo to
the .git/config, give it a name and do "git pull hands master" or
something like that.

 actually you could have got e.g. the linux kernel using git:// from
kernel.org and done the same thing.

> Before that,
> everything falls over after gigabytes have been downloaded.
> It seems the problems are with git.

 no - i mean yes.  first clone with git in HTTP mode is a pain.  a
single interruption at the HTTP transport level and it does *not*
retry - just bombs out.

> When doing a first time clone, the situation is diabolical
> with the huge numbers of files and histories overwhelming
> servers and buffers and so on.

 correct.  the solution is not to use git in HTTP mode for first clone.

> I am betting that means you need to create a clean new
> project starting point without the history?

 errr for the linux kernel?  not a chance.

> Not sure what kind of management goes into mega software projects.

 usually you use git:// not http:// for first clone, and that *does*
have retries etc. etc.

>
> Anyway, log updated with photos - and still far behind.
> http://www.gplsquared.com/eoma_boot/eoma_boot.html
>
> I'm waiting on a netbook with 250GB SSD to arrive.
> At the moment, everything is split between work PC, home PC and servers
> in between. Once its on netbook, I can carry it back and forth and work
> on the one machine - keep loosing files and notes all the time at the
> moment.

 loovely.  well, make good use of the wiki - use it to keep notes.

l.