Re: d-i for wheezy on a Dreamplug, docs/recommended practice?
Hi Martin,
On 2013-03-22 18:42, Martin Lucina wrote:
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Futher: What is a user w/o a JTAG device to do? How is he/she
supposed to
run the installer?
I don't think it's possible. The only other way to get a new distro on
the
device would be to write a pre-created image on to a MicroSD card and
take
it apart to install it.
Further #2: All of the instructions I've found on the net about
upgrading
U-boot discuss either using OpenOCD (which is unreliable as hell, I
never
managed to make it work due to timing problems), or using an existing
U-boot to load the new image and flash it.
I have to agree on this point: I could never get OpenOCD to work on
either
of my two Dreamplugs.
There is another method which is not mentioned anywhere(!!) which I
use and
is 100% reliable, namely booting over UART using kwuartboot [2],
loading
the new image also over UART using e.g. kermit and then flashing it.
Would
it be worthwhile to document this somewhere? If so, where? Obviously
this
only works for people with the JTAG unit/some other compatible UART
level
converter.
Since I wrote that, a better version[1] called kwboot (although I think
the
name may be about to change) has been independently written and
incorporated
into the u-boot source code. Your point about providing instructions
to help
people get things up and running still stands of course. I shall make
a
small start on that by pointing to kwboot from my webpage.
Regards,
Leigh.
[1] http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852,7852
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