[Arm-dev] armv7 kernel and uboot version

Sat Aug 22 08:16:36 UTC 2015
Mandar Joshi <emailmandar at gmail.com>

> I see that the kernel I cannot get working yet is 4.2.0-0.rc2 (I have rc6 on
> f23a and still would need to patch that for wifi), but I can't figure out
> which uboot is on the image.
The messages on the serial console tell the U-Boot version.
"U-Boot SPL 2015.07-rc1-00513-g5bcec54 (Jun 11 2015 - 09:17:41)"

> Plus whatever is there was part of the
> pre-alpha, as my understanding, you would have to dd any new .bin to the
> boot SD card.
Correct.
boards.d/cubietruck.sh has the options you need to pass to dd for cubietruck.

> Oh, also all you really need on the SD card is uboot.  You can put all the
> rest on your sata drive.  A USB drive does not work yet, but Hans says it
> would not be hard for someone that knows dracut to work that out and provide
> the instructions to get included upstream.
dracut has a --add-drivers option which you could try out.
eg. while I was testing out some drivers, the dracut command I used
with a F22 kernel with CentOS rootfs was
dracut --verbose --add-drivers "mmci" ~/initramfs-test.img
4.0.0-0.rc5.git4.1.fc22.armv7hl

Regards
Mandar Joshi