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[ts-7000] Re: Upgrading kernel version to 2.6 in TS-7250

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Upgrading kernel version to 2.6 in TS-7250
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 07:11:21 -0000
--- In  Matthew Harrell 
<> wrote:
>
> > I've tried to upgrade the kernel running in my board from 2.4.26-ts11 to 2.=
> > 6.21 and I've got a message error when mounting root.
> > The kernel image that I-m using is the one avalaible from ftp.embeddedarm.c=
> > om (zImage-72xx-2.6.21-ts).
> 
> If I remember right the stock TS 2.6.21 doesn't have built-in support for
> the nvram.  It looked like it was meant to be used more in an NFS-root
> system.  You should be able to grab their source and config, modify it the
> way you want, and then boot that kernel fine, though
> 
> -- 
>   Matthew Harrell
>   Bit Twiddlers, Inc.                 
>   
>

If we look at the TS site and what is says about this kernel it clearly states 
that NAND flash support is "untested". Since it seems improbable that they 
could not find at 7250 to test this on I think this means they tested it and it 
DOES NOT WORK. 

This has been resolved in more recent mainline kernels.

Sadly this means you'll need to sort out a cross compiler and do the dirty work 
yourself. This is a bit of a learning curve if you are not upto speed on cross 
compiling but you will need this capability anyway. The root fs image provided 
by TS for 2.6.21 is unlikely to work out of the box for a more recent kernel.

There are patch sets in the files section here for upto date kernels that have 
much better support for the cyrus arm CPU so this is worth having.

Several people have reported having this working on 7250 , so the good news is 
it works, it's just a bit of graft.





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