Err, one more point. I have built both of these kernels many times, never had
your problem. One thing that did give me the rolling re-boots was when I used
the wrong gcc (4.x.x.). I settled on TS' toolchain, 3.3.4 eabi.
--- In Clark Dunson <> wrote:
>
> Good luck. I've never seen that rolling reboot you describe
> with any kind of kernel panic, maybe I am just lucky. That is
> why I focussed on the disc particulars in my last post. If you
> want my default image, tell me where I can copy a 2GB image
> to and it's yours.
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Don Tucker wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Clark. I was using TS's 2.6.290-ts kernel source, but I'll try
> > the mainline 2.6.29 kernel with Matthieu's patchset to see if that
> > works
> > any better. My main fear in using non-TS stuff is that I will need
> > drivers for the PC/104 bus to use COM ports on that for the TS-GSM1
> > and
> > drivers for the TS-ETH2 as well. Hopefully, those will be in there.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > On 2/10/2011 5:15 PM, Clark Dunson wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Don. I used the 512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd image,
> >> and the first thing I did was transfer that image to a 2GB card and
> >> make sure it works with dd & bs=2048. Then I enlarged the fourth
> >> partition to fill the card. That gave me: my2GB-linux2629-lenny-
> >> eabi.dd,
> >> which I used as an image from then on.
> >>
> >> Then I took the 2.6.29 kernel source from www.kernel.org, and applied
> >> Matthieu's patchset to it. Then I used the default configuration for
> >> TS-7260
> >> as a starting point.
> >>
> >> You'll have to look into arch/arm/config to see the ones Matthieu
> >> added, think
> >> it was 'make ts7260_def_config' but I could be off a few letters on
> >> spelling the
> >> make target.
> >>
> >> The whole thing is tricky.
> >> I use standard a USB card reader.
> >>
> >> The kernel insertion:
> >>
> >> dd if=/arch/arm/boot/zImage of=/dev/sde2 bs=2048
> >>
> >> is safe. But you must make darn sure to unmount the
> >> auto-mounted /dev/sde1 /cdv/sde2, and /dev/sd4 BEFORE
> >> using dd on these other partitions! Running fsck on them occasionally
> >> from the host machine is not a bad idea!
> >>
> >> I finally resorted to using the make modules_install target in the
> >> kernel and directing
> >> the build to copy the modules to a neutral location:
> >>
> >> sudo -E make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/home/qf/Desktop/bbb
> >>
> >> and then
> >>
> >> sudo cp -r /home/qf/Desktop/bbb/lib/modules/ /media/disk-2/lib/
> >>
> >> Then each of the three mounted partitions must be manually unmounted,
> >> or you
> >> are asking for trouble: sudo umount /dev/sde1, etc. (sde4 takes ~30
> >> seconds
> >> to unmount)
> >>
> >> Best.
> >>
> >> On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Don Tucker wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Clark. Yes, it is a 2GB SD card, and yes, I do use the
> >>> bs=2048
> >>> option. I can get the 512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd
> >>> <ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7260-linux/binaries/ts-
> >>> images/512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd.bz2>
> >>> image to boot, but not after rebuilding the kernel. Do you have a
> >>> default config file for the TS-7260 with the 2.6.29-ts kernel
> >>> that you
> >>> can point me toward?
> >>>
> >>> Don
> >>>
> >>> On 2/10/2011 3:59 PM, Clark Dunson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes Don,
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you on a 2GB SD card?
> >>>> Be sure you include the bs=2048 option to dd every single time you
> >>>> write to a 2GB SD card.
> >>>> I have replaced the kernel many times without trouble using dd in
> >>>> this
> >>>> manner.
> >>>> That rolling reboot you describe happens here when I don't do it
> >>>> right.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Rekcut_Nod wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Has anyone managed to get this combination running? I tried to get
> >>>>> this image
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7260-linux/binaries/ts-
> >>>>> images/512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd.bz2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> to boot with a rebuilt kernel using this source
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7260-linux/sources/
> >>>>> tskernel-2.6.29-ts-src.tar.gz
> >>>>> <ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7260-li%21%0A%20nux/
> >>>>> sources/tskernel-2.6.29-ts-src.tar.gz>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and a config file that I used with a 2.6.21-ts kernel, but the the
> >>>>> resulting SD card just keeps rebooting after the second '.'
> >>>>> following
> >>>>> the "TS-BOOT" message.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am only considering doing this because the 2.6.21-ts driver for
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> TS-ETH2 card (ax88796b) seems to have issues. :(
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Don
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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