From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:01:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] pandaboard_defconfig: bump u-boot to 2015.10 and kernel to 4.3 In-Reply-To: <20151229140021.054e6740@free-electrons.com> References: <1450978394-822-1-git-send-email-sergio.prado@e-labworks.com> <20151227120631.78043b59@free-electrons.com> <20151229140021.054e6740@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20151229140134.6dce652c@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:00:21 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > That was my first attempt, but it didn't work. The ROM code from OMAP > > processors (and I think also Sitara processors) need the SD card to be > > formatted with a special geometry in the partition table. That's the reason > > of the script above. I did not find any option in the genimage tool to > > configure thinks like sectors and cylinders. So I do not see an easy way to > > generate a sdcard image in this case. What do you think? > > Ah ok. I don't know if genimage can handle such scenarios. I am Cc'ing > Vivien Didelot, who did quite a bit of work on genimage in Buildroot. I > think I remember he telling me that he had a working genimage > configuration for the BeagleBone, which has, AFAIK, the same > requirements as the PandaBoard in terms of geometry and all. I found Vivien's initial patch for the BeagleBone: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-March/122406.html Though I don't see where it handles the specific geometry requirements. Maybe those requirements have been relaxed in the AM335x compared to the OMAP4 ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com