[Buildroot] [PATCH] pandaboard_defconfig: bump u-boot to 2015.10 and kernel to 4.3

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:00:21 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> > That was my first attempt, but it didn't work. The ROM code from OMAP
> > processors (and I think also Sitara processors) need the SD card to be
> > formatted with a special geometry in the partition table. That's the reason
> > of the script above. I did not find any option in the genimage tool to
> > configure thinks like sectors and cylinders. So I do not see an easy way to
> > generate a sdcard image in this case. What do you think?
> 
> Ah ok. I don't know if genimage can handle such scenarios. I am Cc'ing
> Vivien Didelot, who did quite a bit of work on genimage in Buildroot. I
> think I remember he telling me that he had a working genimage
> configuration for the BeagleBone, which has, AFAIK, the same
> requirements as the PandaBoard in terms of geometry and all.

I found Vivien's initial patch for the BeagleBone:

  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-March/122406.html

Though I don't see where it handles the specific geometry requirements.
Maybe those requirements have been relaxed in the AM335x compared to
the OMAP4 ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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