+++ Wookey [2010-04-08 04:24 +0100]:
> +++ Charles Manning [2010-04-08 09:39 +1200]:
> > I really don't want to spend hours debugging all this building 
> 
> > and I wonder 
> > whether there is somewhere where I can just download a fresh set of 
> > consistent bunch of binaries that work. 
> 
> There is the set I built and tested on your board-type a few days ago.
> I haven't uploaded those anywhere yet as there were other issues still
> to fix in the build system to get a build known to work on old boards,
> new boards, podpoint, CUED and tcl configs.
> 
> However I'll check my current build and (assuming it works) do a
> release of that tomorrow so you can use it, and concentrate on the
> kernel/yaffs stuff. 

Guess what? Now I have the modprobe problem that Charles reported a
few days ago. So at least I've reproduced that. Happens with both
2.6.29 and 2.6.31 kernels. That wasn't there last week - which
is odd.

I have collected a set of parts that work here by using an earlier
initrd than the ones built today (which have modprobe-itis) and uploaded them to: 
http://balloonboard.org/files/balloon3/distro/rel-v0.99/binaries/
so that Charles can stop faffing.

However there is a 'but':
I can confirm that that fpga.bin, bootldr, zImageInitrd (NOR kernel/installer)
all work fine and will take the emdebianrootstrap there and
unpack/configure/repack/install it. The (nand) kernel there boots 
too, but something is still amiss because I get an 'unable to open
console' whinge and chrooting into it from the initrd causes a segfault.
So, the above 'release' is enough to install rootfses with, but doesn't include a
rootfs that actually works. That probably counts as progress, but is
not quite what you asked for. I give up for tonight. More tomorrow. 

Clearly this is not yet release-worthy.

Wookey
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