root filesystem

With a better understanding of what’s happening with the Beagle Board validation images I’ve started to redesign the boot process for BeagleBox. First, the SD card will be partitioned with two partitions. The first is the FAT32 partition to hold the kernel image, boot scripts and an initial ramdisk (initrd). […]

BeagleBox: understanding the boot process requirements

Sat October 23, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / boot process / bootloader / BUI / DDR / ext2 filesystem / fakeroot / fat32 partition / initial ramdisk / journaling file systems / kernel image / NAND / pivot / root filesystem / sd card / set top box / SGX / STB (updated 4927 days ago)

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

Sun October 17, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 4931 days ago)

I’m back from vacation and have been working on integrating Robert Nelson’s SGX patchset into the BeagleBox build. These patches implement the SGX kernel drivers for the BeagleBoard found in the OMAP35x_Graphics_SDK package for Linux. This allows building the SGX kernel modules with the rest of the kernel build instead […]

BeagleBox: SGX integration progress

Mon September 27, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / kernel driver / Launchpad / Linux / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / SGX

I’m working two main issues at the moment: stripping Matchbox to get a new BUI core and working on building and packaging the SGX SDK drivers. The former is going well. I’ve stripped session management and gconf already and checked those in. I’ve got themes stripped down so that the […]