[Arm-netbook] 480 × 272 5" LCD lash up ready for testing

[luke.leighton]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:49 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 13:05 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:43 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> i should say i get absolutely no interest in what i do here. i just
>> >> followed your mailing list and discovered a duplication of effort.
>> >
>> > To reduce duplication, I got the cubieboard2 and eoma side by side,
>> > so I can do the cubie and eoma side by side - use the working
>> > cubie to verify the eoma step by step.
>> >
>> > I tried got to a lot of things last night, and plenty milage with
>> > cubieboard2 which is so much further ahead. I got to the differences in
>> > boot.cmd, boot.scr, script.bin that I can fix from a stock sunxi dd uSD
>> > image. I guess the next step is the kernel and then locating the board
>> > specific packages and see what else needs doing to convert an existing
>> > uSD cubie2 images that can be worked on by a single script to convert it
>> > to boot on eoma.
>>
>>  you should be able to drop in a different script.fex (the
>> eoma68-a20.fex one) and... err... that's about it.  you've already got
>> u-boot up so it should be utterly trivial.
>
> Tried that no success - somewhere in the boot log is a reference to not
> being able to access mmcblk0p2 because this cubie distro does not use a
> second partition.

 right. that's easy to fix.  modify the boot.cmd to reference
root=mmcblp0p1 ....


> It may be because I might have forgotten to make a fresh boot.scr
> after editing boot.cmd. Have to wait till this evening to get to it.

 ... and then, yes: run the mkinit blah blah command which blah blah

 or, if you can't be bothered to do that then.. well... make an sdcard
with 2 partitions, leave the first one blank :)