buildrom

[ron minnich]

buildrom wants to set up v3 for dbe61 but not 62? Did 61 suddenly get
supported and I missed it :-)

I'm really just trying to build etherboot that works ...

ron

[Jordan Crouse]

On 26/05/08 11:35 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> buildrom wants to set up v3 for dbe61 but not 62? Did 61 suddenly get
> supported and I missed it :-)
>
> I'm really just trying to build etherboot that works ...

Its probably just an oversight.  How should it be organized?  61 for v2,
62 for v3?

Jordan

### LX800 , NAND FLASH, Booting

[Steve Spano]

Hi

We are using coreboot on an LX800+CS5536 custom platform.
Coreboot + FILO is loaded into a standard flash prom on the LPC bus
It boots up and then accesses a 1GB compact flash which stores Linux 2.6 and
our applications.

I am really interested in pulling that bulky, expensive compact flash and
connector from the design.

What are the options for using a NAND flash to replace the Compact Flash?
Would we need to use a Linux-As-Payload setup and then just map the NAND as
a YAFFS/JFFS device in linux? What about initial loading of the filesystems
on the NAND? Would we boot up with NFS on linux the first time, then pull
down a filesystem image into the NAND flash once booted on NFS?

I'm interested to hear ideas on how to do this or if no one has done it yet.

Thanks

Steve Spano, President
Finger Lakes Engineering

### LX800 , NAND FLASH, Booting

[Mart Raudsepp]

Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2008-05-27 kell 10:45, kirjutas Steve Spano:
> Hi

Hello,
> We are using coreboot on an LX800+CS5536 custom platform.
> Coreboot + FILO is loaded into a standard flash prom on the LPC bus
> It boots up and then accesses a 1GB compact flash which stores Linux 2.6 and
> our applications.
>
> I am really interested in pulling that bulky, expensive compact flash and
> connector from the design.
>
> What are the options for using a NAND flash to replace the Compact Flash?

We do that on the ThinCan DBE61 and DBE62. We are looking into going
away from that, because with the NAND interface we are looking at a mere
2MB/sec transfer rate, which is rather slow.
> Would we need to use a Linux-As-Payload setup and then just map the NAND as
> a YAFFS/JFFS device in linux? What about initial loading of the filesystems
> on the NAND? Would we boot up with NFS on linux the first time, then pull
> down a filesystem image into the NAND flash once booted on NFS?

FILO-0.5 in openbios/coreboot SVN repository recently had some GeodeLX
NAND flash boot support patches committed based on our (Artec Design's)
FILO branch, so you could just boot off of NAND through FILO, with the
kernel and rootfs both being on NAND.

Regards,
Mart Raudsepp
Artec Design LLC

[ron minnich]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Jordan Crouse  wrote:
> Its probably just an oversight.  How should it be organized?  61 for v2,
> 62 for v3?

definitely 62 for v3, but I think both 61 and 62 for v2?

ron