Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines
I increased the kernel zimage flash available to 4mb on an Intel SS4000E (iop32x) by reconfiguring the flash with fconfig, deleting the unused parts used by the stock firmware. This enabled me to upgrade the kernel to v3.2.
This does need serial console access as Ben says but that is true whatever kernel you want to flash.
Chris
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Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:44:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> We have a recurring problem with building kernels for armel: three
>> flavours (iop32x, ixp4xx, orion5x) require the kernel image size to be
>> less than 1.4-1.5 MB in order to fit into a fixed flash partition.
>
>At least on Thecus N2100 (iop32x), the kernel partition can be increased
>to 2.5 MB by deleting a redundant partition used by the original firmware.
>This will however require manual actions from the user and access to
>serial console.
>
>A.
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