World of XorA

There is an updated and bugfixed version of this script now added to the OE git repository where all updates from now will be done.
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Since the instructions to format an SD card for booting with beagle/zoom2/other omap boards seems to be so complex I decided to write a script that was nice and simple to accomplish the same task.

Here is my tested and working script.

#! /bin/sh

DRIVE=$1

dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE bs=1024 count=1024

SIZE=`fdisk -l $DRIVE | grep Disk | awk '{print $5}'`

echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes

CYLINDERS=`echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc`

echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS

{
echo ,9,0x0C,*
echo ,,,-
} | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $DRIVE

mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${DRIVE}1
mke2fs -j -L "rootfs" ${DRIVE}2

To run this script you will require to run it as root. On Ubuntu or other linux with sudo setup run the script as

sudo sh mkcard.sh /dev/sdX

replacing sdX with the base device name of your SD card device.

If your running a distribution without sudo setup then become root then run the script as

su -
sh mkcard.sh /dev/sdX

Ok, as the kernel and rootfs are working to some degree and the autobuilders are making omapzoom2 packages and narcissus is generating zoom2 image I made it official today. Ångström supports the zoom2 officially now!

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/omap-zoom2-support

Fixed/discovered why I was having touchscreen issues, now touchscreen is working.

Found out why gpe-login was dieing, Xorg uses neon via pixman but the default andoid config doesn’t enable neon in kernel so fixed that.

This means that the zoom2 can now boot x11-image fully. I guess this means Angstrom supports OMAP Zoom2 I shall have to update the Angstrom website later/tomorrow to reflect this status.

Only bit of work I would like to finish now before calling it totally complete is to work out why mainstream u-boot cannot boot kernels. It would be nice to use that as its defineately got some bugs fixed with FAT mmc cards.

Well more progress today on Ångström support for the Zoom2.

After trying different kernels I found the android/omap 2.6.29 kernel would compile and successfully boot on the Zoom2. This is also the first kernel I have found where fbdev works.

Xorg will now run and is using accellerated omapfb driver and I have had windows working. touchscreen for some reason is broken and gpe-login bails out so we cant yet use Xorg. But this is a massive step forward.

Also needed is to work out why OE built u-boot mainline will not boot kernels. There is some important FAT compatability work that makes mainline u-boot more desirable.

Getting ever closer to full Ångström support though!

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So, thanks to a generous donation from TI I got to start working on Ångström support for the Zoom2 devkit last night.

After some false starts while trying to decode conflicting documents I managed to get it to boot from the SD card with a u-boot that was built from OE.

The mainline linux-omap is currently broken for omap2/3 so I resorted to the TI kernel from omapzoom.org which I managed to get to compile in OE fairly easilly. I also generated an x11-image.

The kernel seems to boot but when it gets to starting init strange things happen. It looks almost as if it slows the clock down to something silly like 10Mhz as it takes 3-4 minutes just to get to the udev 141 starting message. Then after about 20 mins doesnt apear to have done much else.

More work to do on this tonight!

Well second server is hear with drives now so its getting really loud in the office

rsyncing the data from the old server to the new, going pretty damn quick!!!!

In the last few days I have also enhanced my WordPress theme editing skills and played around with remembering how to write sh scripts. Ill have to put this to use on my own WordPress to make a better theme for me. Quite a difficult task as I lack most artistic talents