Re: Boot from SD

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Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:36:29AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I currently have 2.6 booting with the rootfs on SD :) I've attached the
>>.config.
>>Many thanks to Matt and Erik!
>
>
> Congrats!
>
> After this, I identified some ridiculous SD driver bugs that have since
> been committed. Anyone who is trying this should make sure they have the
> latest cvs.
>
> BTW, I was able to replicate the crudy SD performance seen on 2.4 in the
> middle of finding those bugs. After fixing the bugs the SD performance
> on h5400 seems pegged at 500kBps (not much better). Don't expect mind
> blowing performance in 2.6. I do not see any problem with card detect.
> But I had a known working card in 2.4. If one has one of the known none
> working cards, they could really help by trying booting off of there
> card with the 2.6 kernel.

I takes multiple boots for me to detect the SD card. It seems that if I
boot from 2.4 -> 2.6 the card doesn't get detected, but if I boot 2.6 ->
2.6 it does get detected.

regards,

Koen

>
> Also, Koen and I both noticed some strange framebuffer behavior. It
> works, but not for long. So beware.
>
> But SD booting is definitely progress.
>
> E
>
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