A new kernel for oxnas

[WarheadsSE]

I'm still following this conversation for moving forward with reinstating the OX820 family.

[celemine1gig]

Could it be that one absolutely needs a newer uboot version to load the new 3.12 kernel?
I tried booting my test kernels, but couldn't. I understand that these new kernels use flat device tree, i.e. a extra dtb file. But I also couldn't boot when attaching the dtb to the kernel imge manually, or through the kernel configuration option.
But I ddin't try the newer uboot version, that navym provides, yet.
I'll also try navym's 3.1.11 kernel tody, if I find the time. If that works, it probably is a Uboot problem.

Edit:
How embarassing! I just got navym's kernel via git (oxnas branch) and realized that it was version 3.11.1 and NOT 3.1.11. So if the mentioned problem is a uboot problem, it probably won't work with 3.11.1, too.
So, next step: Compiling a new uboot version now.

[mikeh49]

I'm interested in using a Pogo P21 and a Pogo Pro as streaming music players outputting to a USB DAC. I understand that Warheads OXNAS kernel does not have working USB audio features and, in fact, I could not get alsa to work on this kernel with a Debian Squeeze filesystem.

So, does this new kernel have working audio such that alsa will work with an external USB sound device? If so, that would be great! I don't need high performance SATA or the latest filesystem. I think Emdebian would be OK also; but I don't need to install it in NAND. My idea is a USB flash drive in the front USB port, as I have on a Pogo E02.

I am a very basic Linux user, so need more help than I have been able to get so far from this thread, as far as installing the new kernel and uboot. So far, I have installed Arch linux on both the P21 and Pro, and they boot fine. One of them is running as a music server with an external USB hard drive. I guess I have some version of uboot in NAND.

Could someone answer the audio question and provide an overview of how to upgrade the kernel.

Thanks.

[celemine1gig]

OK, getting a newer uboot version alone isn't as easy as I had hoped it would be. Any hints are highly appreciated!

@navym:
I found your wiki that describes using your provided u-boot as the bootloader for direct SATA booting.
Did you also test it with NAND as well?

@WarheadsSE:
I found a comment from you that stated that loading plain "u-boot.bin" was not going to work on these devices. I guess the wrapping of your "stage1/packager" (from your main uboot sources) is needed? I only got "bad magic number" or nothing when trying to load my uboot binaries, so far. But I didn't try the packager, yet.

Guys, thank you very much in advance!

Edit 1: Compiled the old Uboot 1.14 sources from WarheadsSE and could tftp and load the u-boot.bin from that. Now why doesn't the u-boot.bin, compiled from the newer sources, work? Hmm...

Edit 2:
All I get with my freshly compiled 3.12 kernels and the stock u-boot is $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.')
And that's that.

[navym]

https://github.com/kref/linux-oxnas/wik ... the-kernel
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')o generate old u-boot compatible uImage
ARCH=arm make ox820_defconfig
ARCH=arm make menuconfig
Boot options --->
[*] Use appended device tree blob to zImage (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*] Supplement the appended DTB with traditional ATAG informati
you may also want to disable PCI support if you device does not have one
ARCH=arm make -j8 zImage ox820.dtb
cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/ox820.dtb > arch/arm/boot/zImage.fdt
/bin/sh scripts/mkuboot.sh -A arm -O linux -C none -T kernel -a 0x60008000 -e 0x60008000 -n 'Linux-3.11.1+' -d arch/arm/boot/zImage.fdt arch/arm/boot/uImage

[celemine1gig]

Thank you very much
If that works, I obviously did something wrong.

[WarheadsSE]

That's got a lot of interesting pieces of code ...

[ShapeShifter499]

Hi,

On a whim I brought one of these Pogoplug Pro devices from a ebay trusted seller sale, 19 bucks. I thought it would be neat to have a extra server that took up little power around adding to one netbook I had already setup as a server. I never set up debian or arch for a Pogoplug before and I was looking around to see if there was a newer kernel, I landed here. How do I get this into a debian or arch setup? Does this newer kernel support the built in wifi? I'd rather have a debian setup, all of my other computers run debian.

[WarheadsSE]

Check forum.doozan.com for debian.

[ShapeShifter499]

How do I get the kernel and uboot into the debian install?

Edit: guess I'll ask over at forum.doozan.com