uboot & bootable USB on t5325
Hi,
I'm totally new to the arm arch, so I'm sorry if any of this post
doesn't make sense ;)
I have a couple of new HP t5325 thin clients for testing. I don't have
ready access to a serial console, so I'm hoping that I can find some
other way in. Ultimately I would like to have these netbooting ltsp
via tftp or some other means. Failing that, a debian install to the
embedded flash would also be handy.
Using HP's included ThinState utility I have created a bootable USB
stick that uses a script to write a gzipped image to the embedded
flash using dd. I'm wondering about the prospect of replacing that
image with something debian-like, preferably something that could be
configured to pull my ltsp image over the network.
Failing that, the bootable USB stick also has a
/uboot/u-boot-3.4.19_V12_1016.bin file that I'm thinking could perhaps
be replace with something a little more useful to my purposes.
Does any of this sound reasonable? Feasible?
Here's some specifics on the hardware.
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
Hardware : Feroceon-KW
Marvell Development Board (LSP Version
KW_LSP_4.2.7_patch21_with_rx_desc_tuned)-- OpenRD-Base Soc: 88F6281
A0 LE
root@HPf4ce462349e3:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00010000 00010000 "u-boot env"
mtd1: 00010000 00010000 "permanent u-boot env"
mtd2: 00010000 00010000 "HP env"
mtd3: 00080000 00010000 "u-boot"
mtd4: 00040000 00010000 "SSD firmware"
More details and photos here.
http://my.opera.com/bhtooefr/blog/hp-t5325-thin-client-risc-os-and-maybe-combining-the-two-or-just-running-linu
Thanks for looking.
db
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