On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Yan Seiner wrote:
> On Mon, June 7, 2010 8:27 am, Jim Jackson wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, cptdondo wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to build a kernel for my 7200 with the MAX-197 A/D.
>>>
>>> The board is fine, as it boots with both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from
>>> Technologic; however, none of those gave me a working CF card. I need
>>> the CF card for my project.
>>
>> The standard 2.4 kernel from technologics has CF support.
>> So I suspect you are doing something wrong.
>
> Hehe... I know I'm doing something wrong... The big question is what? :-)
>>
>> The CFcard should be partitioned, even if it only has one partition,
>> I use the fdisk utility on my linux desktop development machine.
>> You then need to build a filesystem on it. If you are going to boot from
>> the cfdisk, it will need to be ext2. When using mke2fs to create the
>> filesystem make sure you use the -I 128 option otherwise the partition
>> might not be mountable.
>
> The problem I was seeing is that many of the technologic modules were
> rejected because they didn't match the kernel - even though everything I
> had was for the ts11 kernel. So the CF card was not being seen at all; no
> insert/remove event, nothing in dmesg showing it was even seeing the card.
Errr.... Yan are you using the CFcard in an USB adapter?
The onboard CF interface on the TS7200 board is not meant to be
hot swappable. The CF IDE support is compiled into their default kernel,
it is not a module! I suspect your problem is not cptdondo's problem,
unless you have an alter ego :-)
cheers
Jim
> I really wish Technologic would clean up the FTP site and reorganize it
> so that it would be easy to find a kernel+modules for a specific board
> easily. A subdirectory for each board, with the latest kernel and
> toolchain that was used to build it would be good.
>
> But... I'm making progress; I've got a working cross-compile toolchain,
> adn I actually built a kernel that booted, even if it failed with the
> "machine ID" problem. I've since found Matthieu Crapet's patches so
> hopefully I will have a nice shiny kernel in a bit.
>
> :-)
>
>
>
>
> --
> If you have eight hours to chop down a tree
> spend six sharpening your axe.
> --Abraham Lincoln
>
>
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