[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 0/3] Initial support for Nitrogen6X

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Eric Nelson <
eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:

> On 12/10/2012 12:50 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Eric Nelson <
>> eric.nelson at boundarydevices.**com <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 12/10/2012 09:11 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Eric and Troy,
>>>>
>>>> Please give this patchset a try as I don't own the board to try it
>>>> myself.
>>>>
>>>> Please bear on mind that this patchset depends on the "[PATCH 0/2]
>>>> Flexibilize sdcard generation" patchset to proper work.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Will do.
>>>
>>> The patches all apply cleanly to meta-fsl-arm and I'm building now.
>>>
>>> Understanding will likely take a while ;)
>>>
>>>
>> I bet that in two weeks you'll be proposing major changes and improvements
>> ;-)
>>
>>  Thanks Otavio,
>
> If so, it will feel like Christmas!
>
> After pulling all kinda N00b stuff, I finally got a build to complete
> for 'nitrogen6x', but it failed with the following errors
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> -----------------
> | Creating journal inode: done
> | This filesystem will be automatically checked every 20 mounts or
> | 0 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
> | 0+0 records in
> | 0+0 records out
> | 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.098e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
> | Model:  (file)
> | Disk /home/ericn/yocto/build/tmp/**deploy/images/fsl-image-test-**
> nitrogen6x-20121211024022.**rootfs.sdcard: 390MB
> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> | Partition Table: msdos
> | Disk Flags:
> |
> | Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
> |  1      4194kB  12.6MB  8389kB  primary
> |  2      12.6MB  386MB   373MB   primary
> |
> | mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
> | 6x_bootscript-nitrogen6x.txt: No such file or directory
> | ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs (see /home/ericn/yocto/build/tmp/**
> work/nitrogen6x-poky-linux-**gnueabi/fsl-image-test-1.0-r0/**temp/log.do_rootfs.3886
> for further information)
> ERROR: Task 7 (/home/ericn/yocto/sources/**meta-fsl-demos/recipes-fsl/**
> images/fsl-image-test.bb, do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 3983 tasks of which 2321 didn't need to be
> rerun and 1 failed.
> No currently running tasks (3983 of 3984)
>
> Summary: 1 task failed:
>
> /home/ericn/yocto/sources/**meta-fsl-demos/recipes-fsl/**images/
> fsl-image-test.bb, do_rootfs
> Summary: There were 2 WARNING messages shown.
> Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> ------------
>
> This brings up a couple of questions.
>
> What boot script? I think I saw a reference to one that we placed
> in our U-Boot tree in one of your patches, but I'll need to spend some
> more time with that.
>

I see; please try to boot u-boot-script-boundary package and try again. It
should work then.


> Why two partitions? It seems that unless a RAM disk is used, a
> single partition should suffice. The same is true of SABRE Lite,
> but I just noticed that the Freescale default environment only
> supports FAT for some reason :(.
>
> It's been a long day. I'll look at this some more tomorrow.
>

The sdcard generation routine works this way and I'd like to do minimal
changes on this, if possible. Currently the change I am doing is to have
the boot script in the first partition. Maybe we'd need to patch the boot
script to be able to load kernel and pass the right root param, but rest
should work fine.

-- 
Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
E-mail: otavio at ossystems.com.br  http://www.ossystems.com.br
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