A few quick searches on the gumstix mailing list seem to indicate that gumstix plans to move the Connex boot model in line with the Verdex products. They have recently merged the 2 source trees and it seems that the only difference between the two is the linux .conf file. The patch files in the current OE tree will work with both Connex and Verdex. The linux .conf file in the tree is that for Connex.
<br><br>I'm not sure when they will begin shipping Connex boards with the new boot model (my last batch were the old style), but they do post instructions on how to update your Connex boards to work with the new boot method.
<br><br>Perhaps it would be adequate for the OE gumstix build to only support the Verdex boot method. Then the differences between the two machine.confs would be minimal.<br><br>Steve<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philip Balister</b> <<a href="mailto:philip@balister.org">philip@balister.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We will need to gumstix into two machine.conf's. I am going to try a<br>first pass at this today. Sadly, I have meetings most of the afternoon :(<br><br>Philip<br><br>Steve Sakoman wrote:<br>> Good to hear that success is possible!
<br>><br>> I am using a Connex rather than Verdex. That would explain our<br>> different experiences in booting.<br>><br>> Verdex boots from a kernel image in its own partition. Connex boots<br>> from the image in /boot
<br>><br>> Sounds like you used the 900K kernel image from the deploy directory<br>> while my Connex was trying to boot from the 1.8M kernel image in /boot<br>><br>> I'm at the airport now replying from my Treo. Later on this evening
<br>> I'll try to reconfigure my Connex's uboot so that I can have it use<br>> the Verdex boot style.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Openembedded-users mailing list<br>
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