iMX53 or iMX51, any support?

[roel]

@ILF,

how is your arch-arm image working on the imx? I just started with the ubuntu image delivred with the imx and it is terrible slow, so I thought to try the linaro version. At the end I will definitely swith to archlinuxarm when it is stable on the imx53 as I don't have much time to troubleshoot now (father of a girl twin of 10 months and rebuilding my house -> very tired...)

regards

[bmentink]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kmihelich', 'A') kernel to test is in the repo, named linux-imx5 and based on Linaro sources for 3.1-rc9. Give it a shot and let me know what happens.

[kmihelich]

Use the omap-smp tarball as a base, that's the armv7h variant. The kernel package is in core, pacman will find it.

[bmentink]

Sorry for the delay .. finally have some time to try this out.

A question: So I build an SD card image with the omap tarball .. and I boot initially with the omap kernel,t hen replace with the imx53 kernel via pacman and boot the new kernel?

Is this the process? Will the omap kernel even boot on an i.mx53 target?

Thanks,
Bernie

[kmihelich]

You'll want to use the omap tarball, chroot in after you extract, then install linux-imx5 replacing linux-omap. You should then be able to boot that new rootfs after doing whatever you need to do with /boot/uImage.

[roel]

Can You chroot from an I386 OS in a ARM OS? You need a VM with an arm OS running to work in, no?

[kmihelich]

Use what you have running on the device now, you'll need an ARM environment. You should be able to prep the new install that way.

[bmentink]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kmihelich', 'U')se what you have running on the device now, you'll need an ARM environment. You should be able to prep the new install that way.

[pepedog]

Probably needs dns in resolve.conf, if network is up

[bmentink]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'P')robably needs dns in resolve.conf, if network is up