ANN: 0xdroid release beagle-donut-0x3

[Shun-Yu Chang]

Hello list,
    0xlab is proud that we have a new release for 0xdroid, beagle-donut-0x3 based on donut branch.
    beagle-donut-0x3 release has better usability and lots of performance improvements.
   
    Here is the release features list as below:
        * Easy access to Internet through USB OTG network routed via host
            - Ethernet support + USB OTG network           
        * Performance improvements
            - Dalvik VM + JIT compiler for ARMv7
            - ARM NEON optimizations for PixelFlinger
        * Theme Flexibility
            - Theme selector introduced
            - Flexible resolution support for Launcher
        * More and better peripheral support including Ril, Wifi, BT, motion sensor, camera, etc.
            - External GSM modem for functional Android Telephony/RIL
            - Bluetooth OBEX OPush and FTP support
            - Motion sensor support
            - Camera capture / recording
        * Stability improvements with several issues fixed
            - Dalvik stability fix
            - Wifi signal strength with Linux Wireless Extension fix
            - Mouse stability fix
            - more.

    For more detail. please check our release notes, http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/beagle_donut_0x3

    Downloading and Installing:
        http://downloads.0xlab.org/release/beagle-donut-0x3/
   
    Welcome giving feedback to us.
    Thanks.
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Regards,
-Jeremy

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/18/2009 01:56 AM, Shun-Yu Chang wrote:
> Hello list,
> 0xlab is proud that we have a new release for 0xdroid,
> beagle-donut-0x3 based on donut branch.
> beagle-donut-0x3 release has better usability and lots of
> performance improvements.

<snip>

> For more detail. please check our release notes,
> http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/beagle_donut_0x3
>
> Downloading and Installing:
> http://downloads.0xlab.org/release/beagle-donut-0x3/
>
> Welcome giving feedback to us.
> Thanks.

What are the details of running the installer from SD? When I
boot on my BeagleBoard, this fails as I no longer have the
default boot environment.

To be clear, what are the U-Boot commands being executed when
the installer (SD:uImage.bin) is run?

Thanks

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[Jim Huang]

2009/12/18 Gary Thomas <ga...@mlbassoc.com>:

> What are the details of running the installer from SD?  When I
> boot on my BeagleBoard, this fails as I no longer have the
> default boot environment.
>
> To be clear, what are the U-Boot commands being executed when
> the installer (SD:uImage.bin) is run?
>

hi Gary,

Please consult the wiki page for details:
http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/boot_nand

Thanks for your interest.

Sincerely,
Jim Huang (jserv)
http://0xlab.org/

[Jim Huang]

2009/12/18 Gary Thomas <ga...@mlbassoc.com>:
> Also, the uImage.bin image seems wrong/broken - it's only 400KB
> whereas previous versions were 1.9MB
>  http://downloads.0xlab.org/installer/beagle-donut-0x3/uImage.bin
>

hi Gary,

Thanks for your notice. It was broken due to some network problems. Fixed now.

We are really sorry for that. Please keep posting if you encounter
any troubles.

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/18/2009 05:18 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:

> On 12/18/2009 04:00 AM, Jim Huang wrote:
>> 2009/12/18 Gary Thomas<ga...@mlbassoc.com>:
>>> What are the details of running the installer from SD? When I
>>> boot on my BeagleBoard, this fails as I no longer have the
>>> default boot environment.
>>>
>>> To be clear, what are the U-Boot commands being executed when
>>> the installer (SD:uImage.bin) is run?
>>>
>>
>> hi Gary,
>>
>> Please consult the wiki page for details:
>> http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/boot_nand
>

> I don't see how this applies - surely the process is to boot
> first using the SD card *only* which then sets up the NAND
> partitions, etc.
>
> Can you provide a boot log of bringing up 0xdroid on the
> BeagleBoard from scratch (all the U-Boot commands, etc)?
>

Also, the uImage.bin image seems wrong/broken - it's only 400KB
whereas previous versions were 1.9MB
http://downloads.0xlab.org/installer/beagle-donut-0x3/uImage.bin

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[Gary Thomas]

On 12/18/2009 04:00 AM, Jim Huang wrote:

> 2009/12/18 Gary Thomas<ga...@mlbassoc.com>:
>> What are the details of running the installer from SD? When I
>> boot on my BeagleBoard, this fails as I no longer have the
>> default boot environment.
>>
>> To be clear, what are the U-Boot commands being executed when
>> the installer (SD:uImage.bin) is run?
>>
>
> hi Gary,
>
> Please consult the wiki page for details:
> http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/boot_nand

I don't see how this applies - surely the process is to boot

first using the SD card *only* which then sets up the NAND
partitions, etc.

Can you provide a boot log of bringing up 0xdroid on the
BeagleBoard from scratch (all the U-Boot commands, etc)?

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[Jim Huang]

2009/12/18 Gary Thomas <ga...@mlbassoc.com>:

> On 12/18/2009 04:00 AM, Jim Huang wrote:
>> Please consult the wiki page for details:
>>     http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/boot_nand
>
> I don't see how this applies - surely the process is to boot
> first using the SD card *only* which then sets up the NAND
> partitions, etc.
>

Yes. I would suggest you to use working Linux system to flash kernel
and root file system
images instead of using u-boot. Feel free to check the instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleNANDFlashing

> Can you provide a boot log of bringing up 0xdroid on the
> BeagleBoard from scratch (all the U-Boot commands, etc)?
>

NOTE: it is possible to boot from SD, but we don't prepare the
installer for that at the moment.
You can do that manually as issue #52 denotes:
http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/issues/detail?id=52

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/18/2009 07:31 AM, Jim Huang wrote:
> 2009/12/18 Gary Thomas<ga...@mlbassoc.com>:
>> Also, the uImage.bin image seems wrong/broken - it's only 400KB
>> whereas previous versions were 1.9MB
>> http://downloads.0xlab.org/installer/beagle-donut-0x3/uImage.bin
>>
>
> hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for your notice. It was broken due to some network problems. Fixed now.
>
> We are really sorry for that. Please keep posting if you encounter
> any troubles.
>

That worked better - it booted from the SD card (as I expected),
then ran the automated installer. Sadly, when I reboot (from NAND)
I get this error:

No MMC card found
Booting from nand ...

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
NAND read from offset 280000 failed -74
4194304 bytes read: ERROR
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80200000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.29-omap1-00007-gdebf08
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2244000 Bytes = 2.1 MB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum ... Bad Data CRC
ERROR: can't get kernel image!

Note: I verified the files I downloaded:

[root@hermes beagle-donut-0x3]# md5sum -c md5sum.txt
android-beagle.ubi: OK
0xkernel-beagle.bin: OK

Ideas?

[HsinYi Chen]

Dear Gary

Your kernel image is bigger that the partition size , should be less that 2M, or your can relocate the partition size in u-boot source code.

2009/12/18 Gary Thomas <ga...@mlbassoc.com>

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[Shun-Yu Chang]

Hi, 

    Here is my boot log for reference as below:

    No MMC card found

Booting from nand ...

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000

 4194304 bytes read: OK

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80200000 ...

   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.29-omap1-00007-gdebf08

   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)

   Data Size:    2244000 Bytes =  2.1 MB

   Load Address: 80008000

   Entry Point:  80008000

   Verifying Checksum ... OK

   Loading Kernel Image ... OK

OK

Starting kernel ...

and It seems you met an kernel read error, For partition info and nand read/write, here is the wiki for reference, http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardNAND,   hopefully i'ts helpful to resolve your problem.

    

    Sorry replying late.

Regards,

-Jeremy

Regards,
-Jeremy

[Jim Huang]

2009/12/19 HsinYi Chen <ossug....@gmail.com>:

> Dear Gary
> Your kernel image is bigger that the partition size , should be less that
> 2M, or your can relocate the partition size in u-boot source code.
>

Good point. Thanks!

Thus, for the sake of boot time and compatibility, we should enforce
kernel image
size < 2 MB as the manner of release build. Issue tracked here:
http://code.google.com/p/0xlab-kernel/issues/detail?id=5

cheers,