Re: How to install Debian on MCIMX53-START-R
Hello,
On 6/29/12 5:31 PM, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:
Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> writes:
I'd like to install Debian onto my i.MX53-R board. I tried to follow
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Freescale/QuickStart but the
linaro-hwpack-create command failed with a python error mentioning
that linux-image-3.1.0-1-mx5 was not found.
unstable is using 3.2:
Thank you for this hint. I was able to build an image and dd'ed it to
the micro SD card. On the serial console I could watch the boot process
but noticed some warnings and errors:
[ 1.248177]
/build/buildd-linux_3.2.21-3-armhf-ki0aTS/linux-3.2.21/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c:
unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
...
[ 2.221226] _regulator_get: sdhci-esdhc-imx53.0 supply vmmc not
found, using dummy regulator
[ 2.265722] mmc0: SDHCI controller on sdhci-esdhc-imx53.0
[sdhci-esdhc-imx53.0] using DMA
[ 2.401097] _regulator_get: sdhci-esdhc-imx53.2 supply vmmc not
found, using dummy regulator
As far as I can see the second revision (-R) of the loco board is not
properly supported. The vanilla kernel lacks (at least) the MC34708 PMIC
related drivers. So USB and sometimes VGA are not working properly.
I tried to backport the MC34708 patches from the Freescale kernel tree
but gave up because the trees diverged too much.
The necessary patched can be found here (2011-10-27):
http://opensource.freescale.com/git?p=imx/linux-2.6-imx.git;a=shortlog;h=ed5a15000f0a8c09b68bdff46906790dcbd01a0a;pg=1
I also made the mistake to flash the Wheezy image to a micro SD card and
tried to boot from the SATA disk with the Debian u-boot. Unfortunately
it lacks SATA support for the loco board (This was introduced in a later
u-boot version than the one on Wheezy).
I wonder if it's possible to use the Freescale 2.6.35 kernel to run the
Debian armhf port. Will this work? Or must I use the armel port?
Thanks for your help!
Gregor
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