Pandaboard ES Newbie...First Steps

[jaxad0127]

"Linux PandaBoardES1 3.0.4+ #9 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 12 17:00:57 CDT 2011 armv7l ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l) OMAP4 Panda board GNU/Linux"

[kmihelich]

You probably need to copy the /boot/uImage from the installation to the first partition of your SD card, where your boot.scr is likely reading the kernel image it's loading.

[ykmag]

Any news on ES support?

[jaxad0127]

I've had a chance to come back to this, and it doesn't look like it will be that simple. Here's the output when I try:

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
mmc read: Invalid size

4434624 bytes read
## Booting image at 82000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.2.7-1-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4434560 Bytes = 4.2 MB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.224182] CPU1: Unknown IPI message 0x1
[ 0.257324] omap_init_sham: platform not supported
[ 0.257324] omap_init_aes: platform not supported

The mmc read message occurs with the validation image too, BTW.

[chrisaw]

It's a shame that nobody has taken this on yet!

Would *LOVE* to run ArchLinux on my PandaBoard ES just like I've got setup on my Rasberry Pi

[WarheadsSE]

It'd be a heck of a lot easier if our devs had one

[chrisaw]

Isn't the ArchLinux ARM community powered by donations?

Wouldn't it be possible to purchase one with the donated funds? Happy to put in to the pot for a good cause!

[WarheadsSE]

We're also in the middle of trying to put together a full & proper build farm, plus hosting/bandwidth, etc. But yes, as we have fund available we try to purchase devices. Usually we have to personally buy them however.

[chrisaw]

Ah yep, makes sense!

I'm happy to invest the time in to getting this working with my device since I'm no stranger to building kernels and since I already have a gentoo kernel working properly on it, there shouldn't be much change between the kernel sources.

I'll start a new thread when I get cracking on this - got a desktop to build when I get home, this is next on my list!