Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment
This site's MAYBE worth looking at: http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/
On 1/6/16, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I’ll try your 2016.01~rc3+dfsg1-3 from experimental as soon as I can.
>
> Great, thanks.
>
>
>> Just to be sure of what I need to do:
>>
>> 1) Install the new versions of Debian packages for u-boot and u-boot-tools
>> on my test SheevaPlug Debian (currently running Sid)
>>
>> 2) I do not need to worry about getting any experimental version of
>> mtd-utils, right?
>>
>> 3) install the /usr/lib/u-boot/guruplug/u-boot.kwb file as u-boot
>> following the instructions at Martin’s page
>> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade/
>> except that I should use 0x80000 for the length of the “nand write”
>> because modern u-boot binaries are bigger than 0x70000.
>>
>> 4) Do not use the procedure described in
>> /usr/share/doc/u-boot/README.Debian to install the new u-boot because the
>> information in /etc/fw_env.config is suspect, and may confuse the issue.
>>
>> 5) restart and check whether the environment has been preserved. If not,
>> restore it manually.
>>
>> 6) reboot and see if it comes up? If it doesn’t, replace the old u-boot
>> and environment and hope we haven’t clobbered something vital.
>
> I don't really know what's needed for the sheevaplug, so I can't really
> speak to what the correct process is... in general, what you describe
> sounds reasonable.
>
>
>> 7) Report to you and the debian-arm list on the results…
>
> If you have issues, please file them as bug reports, or comment on the
> appropriate bugs if they are already filed.
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
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