[Buildroot] RPi B+ update

Marco Trapanese marcotrapanese at gmail.com
Wed May 17 20:49:41 UTC 2017


Il 17/05/2017 19:36, Waldemar Brodkorb ha scritto:
> what happens if you keep your old kernel and dtb and just update the firmware (start.elf, fixup.dat and the other file)?
>
> I think new firmware can handle dt and non-dt kernel. You might need to add the trailer magic to the old kernel with mkknlimg.


Il 17/05/2017 21:29, Peter Korsgaard ha scritto:

>
> Unless the system boots with new fw and the old zImage. Did you try that
> combination?


Hi both!
I've just tried to boot with the old zImage and the new firmware: it 
hangs on the colored background on power up. The same happens using 
mkknlimg on the old kernel.

Marco




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