[pkg-fso-maint] pkg-fso-maint Digest, Vol 7, Issue 18

Fri Feb 13 08:48:58 UTC 2009

Hello,

This sounds great!

But could it be possibel to add some user interaction?
Like asking for vFat/ext2 or ext3 + swap
Like asking for repartion or reformat

Thanks and greetings

Jos vd Snepscheut

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>    1. I just saw this on Calgary Herald (galabs2000 at gmail.com)
>    2. Re: fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes: Cannot	allocate
>       memory (Luca Capello)
>    3. Re: fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes: Cannot	allocate
>       memory (Martin Michlmayr)
>    4. Re: Mokomaze for Debian (?????)
>    5. Re: fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes: Cannot	allocate
>       memory (Timo Juhani Lindfors)
>    6. Re: fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes: Cannot	allocate
>       memory (Christian Adams)
>    7. install.sh - 4 proposals for patches (Steffen Moeller)
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:07:17 +0100
> From: Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>
> Subject: Re: [pkg-fso-maint] fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes:
> 	Cannot	allocate memory
> To: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>
> Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at debian.org>, 512589 at bugs.debian.org,	"ML
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> tags 512589 + patch
> thanks
> 
> Hi Timo!
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:50:55 +0100, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
>> Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> writes:
>>> # MTD device name	Device offset	Env. size	Flash sector size	Number of sectors
>>> /dev/mtd2               0x0000          00040000        00020000                2
>> Aha, with this change it looks good:
> [...]
>> I did a test reboot and the system seemed to boot up nicely with
>> updated kernel boot parameters:
> [...]
>> Thanks a lot for packaking the fixed version!
> 
> I prepared another package:
> 
> 1) set version to 20081215, the last commit to tools/env/ [1]
> 
> 2) add a NEWS.Debian file, now fw_env.config requires a fifth parameter
> 
> 3) add newline to EOF for qnap_ts101.config (this is mostly an aesthetic
>    change, but it disturbed me...)
> 
> 4) add openmoko_gta02.config, which I successfully tested [2]
> 
> 5) imported the Debian package into a Git repository at [3]
> 
> 
> Timo, can you confirm that the new package works as well, please?
> 
> Before uploading (I will *not* upload a source NMU), there are at least
> the following two issues to be fixed:
> 
> a) check that it works on other devices (QNAP, Kurobox, etc.); I cc:ed
>    Martin Michlmayr, who uploaded the last version and I guess still has
>    some U-Boot-capable devices
> 
> b) finalize the debian/changelog and debian/NEWS entries
> 
> 
> Per, Martin: I am not a boot loader expert, but uboot-envtools will be
> used by the Debian-on-Openmoko installer, thus I can help in maintaining
> the package as well as sponsoring, if needed.
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=22525779cb51f1bbe4e96fea7b778de1935a5a69
> [2] http://people.debian.org/~gismo/tmp/uboot-envtools/
> [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/gismo/uboot-envtools.git;a=summary
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:09 +0100
> From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>
> Subject: Re: [pkg-fso-maint] fw_setenv: Cannot malloc -131072 bytes:
> 	Cannot	allocate memory
> To: Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>
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> * Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> [2009-02-12 17:07]:
>> a) check that it works on other devices (QNAP, Kurobox, etc.); I cc:ed
>>    Martin Michlmayr, who uploaded the last version and I guess still has
>>    some U-Boot-capable devices
> 
> I cannot test on the Kurobox right now and I haven't managed to create
> a proper config file for the QNAP devices yet (what's the best way to
> find out where the u-boot environment is stored?).  I hope Per can
> test the new package on the Kurobox.
> 
>> Per, Martin: I am not a boot loader expert, but uboot-envtools will be
>> used by the Debian-on-Openmoko installer, thus I can help in maintaining
>> the package as well as sponsoring, if needed.
> 
> I've sponsored Per's uploads so far, but I'm happy for you to take
> over.  Please coordinate with Per.