Hi, Le 07/11/2012 07:25, Dimax a écrit : > HI, > > I'm trying to build the very latest u-boot version for SheevaPlug. > The reason is the below thread: > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-October/138533.html > > In short u-boot fails to mount ubifs partition after power short. If I > boot from USB stick debian kernel manage to recover the partition. > People from u-boot stuff suggested me to apply a number of patches to > u-boot. They sad that it should let u-boot to be able to mount broken > ubifs partition after that. > > I have build latest u-boot main line using native GCC on one of my > running SheevaPlug boards. You can cross build your uboot also from a linux box. > Before I tun it and potentially brick my board I'd like to ask if > someone did it. You can load it from uboot and test it before flashing it. Just add an offset of 0x200 (the header) to you loaded uboot address. then jump to this address with the uboot command "go 0x....." > I was in contact with Martin Michlmayr and Clint who maintain Debian > port of the u-boot for Marvell boards. Martin told me: > >> There are some but not many; e.g. there are some patches to add SD >> support on the SheevaPlug. >> You can download the source code from the Debian repo and check it out; >> the Debian patches are split out. > > Actually I do not care about SD support and want to try main line > u-boot. Should it work? Yes, it might work. Save your env settings because mainline will be different. Take care also of the size of uboot binary when loading, mainline may be bigger. > If not what is the procedure to build Debian one? $ apt-get source ... $ cd uboot $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -aarmel > Thanks. Some more advice at https://doukki.net/doku.php?id=wiki:tutoriels:uboot.howto
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