[16:45] <dave_m> #ubuntu-devel
[16:46] <lool> Excellent choice
[16:51] <armin76> rofl
[16:59] <Martyn> Morning.
[16:59] <Martyn> Well, afternoon now.
[17:00] <Martyn> ogra : Could I entice you to make an image that boots to single-user for me?   We're still waiting for the serial breakout dongle, and I want to run some benchmarks that get skewed if X is loaded.
[17:00] <Martyn> Well, wait, not single user .. just X-less
[17:01]  * Martyn tried hex editing the Redboot sector in the image that has the kernel command line, but if you even touch a single byte of it, the board doesn't boot.
[17:02]  * Martyn is now working on getting u-boot functioning
[19:14] <Martyn> hey all
[19:15] <Martyn> Anyone working on the mx51 platform awake?
[19:23] <lool> Martyn: Shortly
[19:23] <Martyn> Ping me when you're ready to talk u-boot and kernels :)
[19:23] <lool> Martyn: Concerning RedBoot config, it's checksummed; I can hand you a C version of "fconfig", but it's not able to change settings
[19:23] <lool> Martyn: Eh, it's a tad late for me
[19:24] <lool> Martyn: Concerning U-Boot, you have anything working yet?
[19:24] <Martyn> lool : I know.  What I need then is an image that has "text" appended to the kernel command line...
[19:24] <lool> I'm working on a Perl version of fconfig, but was distracted today
[19:24] <Martyn> lool : Somewhat.  I can now load the kernel image into RAM from the SD card, but cannot execute.  I need to read through the MX's massive documentation to see what I'm doing wrong.
[19:24] <lool> I just got the checksum working thursday
[19:24] <Martyn> I cannot load the initrd into ram however.
[19:25] <Martyn> lool : cksum on u-boot :)  Woot.
[19:25] <lool> No, of the redboot config
[19:25] <Martyn> I've also poked at my higher-ups (aka, CEO) to get cracking on getting better communication between canonical and us, so we can talk more freely.
[19:25] <lool> Martyn: I know we had issues with initramfs earlier, but it should be all working now
[19:26] <Martyn> lool : Gotcha.  hopefully ogra will have a new sdcard image built soon then.
[19:26] <Martyn> I'm going to keep picking away at u-boot till it works, since that's the more "standard" bootloader on ARM these days.
[19:27] <Martyn> and it would be nice to have an in-firmware monitor.
[19:28] <lool> Hmm that's harder I think
[19:28]  * lool waves and goes away for tonight
[19:50] <armin76> Martyn: afaik freescale is working on porting it to u-boot, or something i read on the powerdeveloper site
[19:51] <Martyn> armin76 : Do you have a link to the powerdeveloper article?
[19:52] <armin76> sec
[19:59] <armin76> Martyn: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12019
[20:00] <armin76> read the part Genesi and Freescale will be responsible for the Firmware...
[20:01] <Martyn> Heh.
[20:01] <Martyn> "Please don't submit projects to port u-boot, as Freescale will be handling this themselves...."
[20:01] <Martyn> *chuckle*
[20:03] <Martyn> good lord .. some of those proposals date back to 2004 :)
[20:03] <Martyn> You'd think they would have gotten u-boot working from the theoretical to the actual in five years :)
[20:03] <armin76> Martyn: i think you're reading on the efika
[20:04] <armin76> or pegasos