Re: kurobox kernel

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mark Glines wrote:

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

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Look here: http://www.kurobox.com/revolution/downloads/contest/patchREADME
for a somewhat rough README and here
http://www.kurobox.com/revolution/downloads/contest/patches.zip are the
patches (sorry about the zip - that was revolution's format of choice...)

Thanks a bunch.  A RAM build of uBoot boots the old kernel fine, so I'll
replace my older uBoot with it.  The only trouble I had was stripping carriage
returns out of the patches in that zipfile; after that, everything went pretty
smoothly.

Wow! You are the first who followed my instructions and to that 
successfully! Thanks!

Urrrggggh, those carriage returns - I don't have any *DOS* here AT ALL... 
It's the Revo guys...

I noticed uBoot is looking for a *.dtb file, as well as the kernel image.  The
patchREADME refers to a "dtc" tool, but the URL it gives
(http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/dtc/dtc.tar.gz) does not exist.  So I googled and
found git://ozlabs.org/srv/projects/dtc/dtc.git, and tried to compile
kuroboxHG.dts, with the command line specified within that file:

$ dtc -f -I dts -O dtb -o kuroboxHG.dtb -V 16 kuroboxHG.dts
DTC: dts->dtb  on file "kuroboxHG.dts"
ERROR: Missing /chosen node
Input tree has errors

So, uh... is the *.dts file in 2.6.20-rc2 bad, or am I compiling it wrongly?
(And is this normally done by hand, or as part of the kernel build process?)

That's ok. You DO have the "-f" which does produce an output. The error is 
because the "chosen" is not there, but this is how we need it for U-boot. 

It's done by hand.

So, you've done everything right! Congrats:-)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski