Re: booting the samsung chromeboot xe303c12 with the debian armmp kernel
On 13 November 2014 10:12, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 07:06 +0000, David Edmondson wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 11 2014, Pedro Bulach wrote:
>> > setenv bootargs 'cros_legacy console=ttySAC3,115200 debug earlyprintk
>> > root=/dev/sda4 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw'
>>
>> Do you have a serial port wired up? I would expect 'console=tty1' for
>> simplefb.
>
> Good question, I'd assumed so but good idea to confirm!
I don't have a serial port. I will fix the console argument.
>
>> Looking at the Debian kernel configuration, it appears that
>> CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is not enabled in the armmp kernel. This would appear
>> to be a requirement for the simplefb variant of u-boot (can anyone
>> confirm?).
>
> I think we could pretty safely enable that, although I'd be much happier
> if someone could try it first. I don't think I have any relevant h/w in
> the right places.
Good catch! I will try to rebuild the kernel over the weekend enabling
the simplefb and test again, and report back.
Pedro
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