Gentlepeople
On Monday 23 August 2010 12:41:51 Wookey wrote:
> +++ Nick Bane [2010-08-23 01:30 +0100]:
> > FYI
> >
> > First cut of kernel 2.6.36-rc1 under menuconfig branch seems to make a
> > zImageBoot, a zImageInitrd and modules.tgz with new yaffs2 that is at
> > first glance ok for a CUED build - there is a penguin and logon screen on
> > a toppoly display anyway.
>
> Well done that man. I'll give it a go here this week.
Well that seemed quick. I hope there was not too much pain behind this.
Are there instructions somewhere for this menuconfig method?
>
> > There is also a u-boot option in the meny but
> > to be useful you need a 70MB git clone that I wasn't willing to check
> > into balloonboard.
>
> Well done. Wookey smiles upon you :-)
>
> We'd better do something like the YAFFS suck-by-date trick I guess. Or
> grab a tarball if such quaint things still exist.
The suck by date using git archive should be good.
You will need to use a very recent yaffs as the 2.6.36 support only got added
a few days ago and was only taken as far as compiling as I have not been able
to test it.
I am expecting to tighten a few nuts and bolts by the end of this week.
-- Charles
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