Raspberry PI

Oleksandr Tymoshenko gonzo at bluezbox.com
Wed Oct 31 06:47:43 UTC 2012


On 2012-10-30, at 11:39 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Kang Yin Su wrote:
> 
>> I have built again kernel from head,  so mmc is working fine. I have few
>> questions regarding it:
>> 1. hardfp support ready? how?
>> 2. I don't see login prompt after bootup, the only way is use ssh. How to
>> enable login prompt on syscons/framebuffer?
>> 3. Ethernet mac address random change every time boot-up? It may due to
>> uboot or firmware issue - apologize if it's OT.
> 
> Has anyone looked at the memory size check?
> 
> I'm using the arm192_start.elf which should advertise
> 192MB RAM.  But U-Boot is still coming up with
> 128MB memory size, which it passes to ubldr, which
> gets passed to the kernel.

It's hardcoded in by version u-boot. Stephen Warren is working on official branch
of u-boot for Raspberry Pi (and pushing it to upstream) and he has a patch for
proper memory size detection (align with several other patches):

http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg96641.html



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