On Wednesday 14 February 2018 03:20:58 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > That, and fighting with my printer because theres no pdf of this > > doco, > > > > <http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option> > > Hi, agreed that staged boot on non i386 machines is really fun. > At least with raspberri and the Geode thing I used PXE boot to test > the kernel itself. Perhaps its possible to do it with rock64. The > advantage is that you handle the boot from the sdcard and you can load > the kernel from the network. This way you do not have to transfer > kernel each time to the sdcard to test if it works, you need to put > the bootloader only. I don't know anything about rock64, on the > raspberri it was the closest I could get - just an old 256MB card to > put the pxe loader and boot off the network. It saved a lot of plug > and unplug of sdcards. > It seems also you could put all your code to image and make it work in > memory like those guys on slax did. > > regards
Humm, how about if the image lives on a spinning rust drive plugged into its own usb3 port? A 2.5" 1T? rock64@rock64:/media/slash/home/rock64/v4.14.15-rt13$ ls arch COPYING defconfig firmware init Kconfig MAINTAINERS modules.builtin net scripts tools block CREDITS Documentation fs ipc kernel Makefile modules.order README security usr certs crypto drivers include Kbuild lib mm Module.symvers samples sound virt I've a "make clean;time make -j3" running. htop session watching it in another terminal. Took 44 minutes last time. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
