[clug] ARM devices with complete upstream support

[Chris Smart]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:02:58AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>Seems that I am the only one playing with this, let me know if you had enough
>from me.
>

Not at all, sorry I've been sick since last Friday and short on time
(and energy!).

>On 26/10/16 12:09, Chris Smart wrote:
>[trim]
>>Anyway, I have a ~$15 Orange Pi One with H3 (sun8iw7p1) SOC (Cortex-A7
>>Quad-Core) and was able to build upstream U-Boot and Linux support for
>>it. If that interests you, feel free to take a look at my blog[2] post.
>[trim]
>
>I thought I should see if it can boot of the second partition, so followed
>the suggestion
>	"if you want to boot from the second partition instead of an initramfs,
>	change root argument to root=/dev/mmcblk0p2"
>
>While I can see the SD card recognised properly
>[    2.377661] mmc0: new SDHC card at address aaaa
>[    2.383025] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SL16G 14.8 GiB
>[    2.393803]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
>
>I do not see any indication it is mounted, like I see with other images
>[    2.270255] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
>[    2.283824] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
>
>I assume there is more to booting of p2 than the one kernel parameter.

You'll need to have copied the contents of the initramfs to the
partition and also edited an /etc/fstab. I didn't go into these details,
so if it's confusing I can remove the suggestion entirely.

>
>I could also ask about the other note
>	"upstream U-Boot supports ext3 on the boot partition"
>but then it is formatted as ext4.
>

The boot partition is formatted ext3:
  sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdx1

It's the root partition that's formatted ext4 (not that we use it):
  sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdx2


-c