[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB)

[Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>]

Hi Yegor,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:55:12PM +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl> wrote:
> > Hi Yegor,
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 04:42:20PM +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl> wrote:
> >> > Hi Thomas,
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:35:44 +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Pieter Smith (7):
> >> >> >   barebox: support multi-image-build image selection
> >> >> >   barebox: friendly error on missing built image
> >> >> >   barebox: support custom barebox output image name
> >> >> >   barebox: introduce barebox-package function
> >> >> >   barebox: extract package name argument
> >> >> >   barebox: support 2nd config build
> >> >> >   beaglebone: adds barebox bootloader defconfig
> >> >>
> >> >> Since there were some comments on this v4, I marked it as Changes
> >> >> Requested in our patch tracking system. When you find some time, can
> >> >> you send an updated v5 of this patch series?
> >> >
> >> > I have been a little short on time as of late. The patch is complete, but I
> >> > am having probably unrelated problems with my BBB set-up that I am trying to
> >> > troubleshoot. Nevertheless, I would like to make sure that everything works
> >> > before reposting. Maybe Yegor can help to test that everything works?
> >> >
> >> > @Yegor: Do you have time to test the branch on your setup?
> >> >   URL:    https://github.com/smipi1/bbb_buildroot.git
> >> >   branch: barebox_2nd_config_build-v5
> >>
> >> Have made basic tests, i.e. changing configuration for barebox and
> >> barebox-2 and running make to see, if proper barebox was compiled.
> >> Everything is working the way it was in v4 from this point of view.
> >
> > Thanks! Did you flash a bare SD card or the internal eMMC with boot.vfat and
> > rootfs.ext4 as part of the tests?
> 
> If I copy your images (MLO, barebox.bin) directly to the FAT
> partition, everything starts as expected. But I dd boot.vfat, the
> system doesn't boot and shows only CCCCC, though I have no problems
> mounting the first partition in Linux.
> 
> sudo dd if=/tmp/boot.vfat of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M

As Thomas mentioned in a later mail, there appears to be some tight geometry
restrictions in the ROM. I updated the genimage script to generate a full
sdcard.img. This seems to work without a hitch. Please give it another twirl.

> Yegor

- Pieter