[ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

[lee jones]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Ottavio <pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 25 August 2011 00:15, lee jones <slothpuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Must admit I'd still like to try it if only to replace that s-l-o-w
> ubuntu
> > install. Though I'm just not sure how to go about it but I was reading
> this;
> >
> > http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/mavericksd/README.txt
> >
> > In particular the end of it as far as I can tell what is needed is a
> kernel,
> > initrd and a boot.scr file.
>
> It looks like that the kernel is in the
> 'linux-image-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx' package:
> http://packages.efikamx.info/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx/
>
> It's a .deb file and if you extract it in the /boot directory you'll
> find "vmlinuz-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx". There's no separate initrd.
>
> Whether this kernel would boot slackware root out of the box, I doubt
> it because armedslack-13.37 comes with the 2.6.38.4 kernel and
> armedslack-current with 2.6.39.4 but this is only my opinion. If you
> have an account on power developer you could do us a favour and ask
> there.
>
> About creating the boot.src and/or building the kernel from scratch:
> https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Efika
>
> The standard boot.src should be in the /boot partition of the SSD.
>
> > Though weather it is possible to use
> > armedslack's kernel/initrd or the
> > efika's ones I'm not sure.
>
> The kernels on armedslack repository are only for kirkwood and versatile.
>
>
> --
> Ottavio
>
>
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Just been trying to make a start on this now, but so far I can't even get
the mx to even attempt to boot from sd, it just ignores it and boots of the
internal flash x.x .


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:)

SP
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