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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 29 17:17:30 UTC 2015


Dear Sergio Prado,

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:14:27 -0200, Sergio Prado wrote:

> I've just confirmed that the Beaglebone Black has the same geometry
> requirements.
> 
> The generated sdcard image works in this case because the processor's ROM
> code will by default load U-Boot from the internal eMMC, that will read the
> images (kernel, dtb, rootfs) from the external sdcard. So if you have
> U-Boot in the internal eMMC, it will work.
> 
> But if you try to boot U-Boot from external sdcard (holding S2) it won't
> work.

Ah, not good then.

> In the meantime, can we keep the previous approach of just documenting the
> process of generating the image in the readme.txt?

Yes, definitely.

Thanks!

Thomas
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