Re: 4430SDP boot failure

Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-06T21:11:27Z

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:51:07PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> We _really_ need a _decent_ boot loader on these boards, one which can
> do network booting _and_ can be configured to do so from bootup. SD
> cards just don't hack it for kernel development. It's a far too long-
> winded process for each cycle, and with all the additional problems
> (such as SD cards not being recognised 50% of the time, FAT filesystem
> bugs in boot loaders, etc) it's really not funny.
>
> So, I give up at this point with the OMAP4430SDP board. It's not worth
> spending the time with this kind of unreliability.

To top it off, the crappy 3rd party ftdi_sio driver I have to use for the
SDP board just oopsed my x86 kernel. Do you get the impression that if
something can go wrong, it will go wrong...

I think I'll leave the 4430SDP alone until I have more patience for it.
I might see about setting up the ARM Realview platform as a remote
terminal for the 4430SDP so at least these kinds of crashes don't take
out my work machine.