[J-core] dtb file in downloads dir.

Rich Felker dalias at libc.org
Sat Jan 21 22:45:22 EST 2017


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:54:17PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> Rich mentioned that I forgot to upload a dtb file to the website (and
> the current bootloader/vmlinux combo needs one).
> 
> In general I'm trying to update the build instructions on the website to
> use musl-cross-make and mkroot and current vanilla kernels and so on,
> but I hit the problem that the j2_defconfig file does not have initramfs
> enabled.
> 
> I can provide CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE during the build (I think I can
> just override it on the command line), but I can't _enable_ initramfs
> without walking people through a menuconfig session...

In principle I think you could just partition the sd card with ext4 on
partition 2 and boot with root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 or whatever. I've never
tried it but I don't see why it wouldn't work. vfat should even work
if you don't care about having working unix permissions on /.

Rich


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