During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is only occationally was an update rolled in. This seems to be the case now in F22.
The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card. So I can take an old SD card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in. I would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got 5 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to them for testing.
If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that I build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image. Just an extra step, but I would like to know about uboot updates.
thanks
(going to start shopping for hdd and ssd drives today)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is only occationally was an update rolled in. This seems to be the case now in F22.
The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card. So I can take an old SD card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in. I would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got 5 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to them for testing.
If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that I build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image. Just an extra step, but I would like to know about uboot updates.
Watch the daily branched reports for F-22. If there's a new u-boot there's a new u-boot, if there's not there's not!
On 02/25/2015 09:04 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is only occationally was an update rolled in. This seems to be the case now in F22.
The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card. So I can take an old SD card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in. I would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got 5 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to them for testing.
If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that I build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image. Just an extra step, but I would like to know about uboot updates.
Watch the daily branched reports for F-22. If there's a new u-boot there's a new u-boot, if there's not there's not!
Would I be looking for uboot-tools?
Size change: -1914 bytes
uboot-tools-2015.01-3.fc22 -------------------------- * Sat Feb 07 2015 Hans de Goedehdegoede@redhat.com - 2015.01-3 - fix build with gcc5
* Mon Feb 02 2015 Dennis Gilmoredennis@ausil.us - 2015.01-2 - enable db-mv784mp-gp
I went all the way back to the 8/14 reports and only found uboot-tools referenced. That is why I asked here.
I also searched for u-boot, as that is what Hans used in his 1/14/15 message on 'u-boot plans...'
During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is only occationally was an update rolled in. This seems to be the case now in F22.
The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card. So I can take an old SD card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in. I would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got 5 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to them for testing.
If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that I build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image. Just an extra step, but I would like to know about uboot updates.
Watch the daily branched reports for F-22. If there's a new u-boot there's a new u-boot, if there's not there's not!
Would I be looking for uboot-tools?
Yes
On 02/25/2015 09:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is only occationally was an update rolled in. This seems to be the case now in F22.
The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card. So I can take an old SD card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in. I would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got 5 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to them for testing.
If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that I build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image. Just an extra step, but I would like to know about uboot updates.
Watch the daily branched reports for F-22. If there's a new u-boot there's a new u-boot, if there's not there's not!
Would I be looking for uboot-tools?
Yes
Great. No good deals on sata drives on ebay today. I do have one spare here to start testing with.
Got to think about how to cobble the install script to support this. Simple way is to mount both an SD card for uboot and the sata drive, provide both devices on the command line and just split the script as to what goes where. And if the variable UBOOT is not provided, no SD card...
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