How to update SMILE plug (pacman -Syu)

[lharmon]

I have been trying to update the SMILEplug software using pacman -Syu without success. I need help!

I understand that manual intervention is required (according to the ArchLinux news).
However I am unable to follow the instructions on the SMILE plug.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries ... ervention/


When I try the first command "pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -"
The SMILE plug reboots!!!

"pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash" fails.

Has anyone been able to update the SMILE plug?

Larry

[kmihelich]

The SMILE software image is pretty old, missing a few large system updates. However, that's what currently works with the SMILE software load, so it's staying that way for the moment. I'm working on a complete update for the system, including moving to a mainline kernel. Once a few final pieces get merged into mainline, that rootfs and new installation instructions will be posted.

[ineiti]

Hi there,

any news on the update of the smileplug? Is the following address

http://archlinuxarm.org/smile-plug

what is most recent?

Thanks,

Linus

[ineiti]

Hi, I finally managed to boot from the SD-card, but had to flash the kernel to the internal flash anyway (probably an error in the SD-card I used).

Now I see that I can't access the internal 1GB of flash - but that is too bad, as it would come in handy - what is the proper kernel-configuration for accessing the smile-plugs internal flash-memory?

[kmihelich]

The new kernels do not have NAND capability at the moment. The work being done to bring this support to the mainline kernel currently doesn't have an ETA.

[ineiti]

Just in case somebody looks at this thread. Smileplug-configs have been moved to:

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7 ... smile-plug