3.9.0+ Device-tree kernels

[cbxbiker61]

Well I tried the precompiled 3.9.2 kernel on my compiler/test eSata Sheevaplug using the script but my system did not boot. It loaded the uImage but then failed to load. I am pretty sure that the problem is that I am using EXT4 on root (/dev/sda1) and by default, I see that EXT4 is not set up either as a module or builtin.

Therefore, I am starting to build a 3.9.2 kernel with Device Tree from scratch! Its edukayshun innit!

I'm not sure what you're looking at...but it's not the config I'm using, which has always had EXT4 built-in.

[apemberton]

@cbxbiker, Yes, of course, you are right as I now see. I should have thought a bit longer as booting the kernel halted after loading it and never got to do anything after. Silly really.

I have now loaded your 3.9.2 kernels for an eSata and a SDHC based Sheevaplugs and they work. It still seems a shame that different .dtb files are needed depending on whether a disk or SDHC is used to boot from. Despite these working, I will still try rolling my own so I understand what is going on - plus I will need bit bashed 1-Wire on my Guruplugs in the not too far distant future.

A nice, easy to read tutorial on .dtb would be welcome (though I havn't looked at the devicetree.org site lately). Onward and upward!

[spinifex]

We have 3 (or is it 4) versions of Dreamplug and I think they have different flash memory, yet we have one DTS for the Dreamplug. Does anyone know which models work with the mainline Dreamplug kernel ?