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Elangovan
Contributor I

Hi,

I would like to know the testing procedure of SATA on iMX6 Sabrelite platform.

Right now I am using L2.6.38_11.11.01 ltib package.

With Regards,
Elangovan V

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hi Elangovan,

I don't know that we tested SATA back on 2.6.38. Is there a reason you can't jump to the latest Linux kernel?

Note that SATA doesn't function well in U-Boot on the v2009.08 tree, but is working really well in the main-line U-Boot tree.

We've been recommending that customers use SD card as their first-level boot (to load a kernel and optional ram disk), then use SATA for their root filesystem after boot until we fully switch to the newer U-Boot code.


Regards,

Eric

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JasonLiu
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

what procedure you want? Do you mean SATA BOOT or using SATA as the rootfs storge? We have tested the SATA boot on the SabreSD board and It works fine.

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kaisun1
Contributor III

HI liu,

   

         i not found my code about  SATA  driver. can you tell me  which patch is used to driver SATA ? i use im6 sabresd board.

With Regards,

kai

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hi Kai,

All of the Freescale releases for the last year have supported SATA under Linux, and the default configurations (imx6_defconfig and such) enable it.

What seems to be failing for you?

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kaisun1
Contributor III

HI Eric:

          I found the cause of the problem, because of patch conflict. I can only see change of the patch to manually modify our  code.  maybe l lost some code.   this is too trouble . 
          My repo sync source code is downloaded without modification. However, each patch is such a problem.

ThinkPad-T400:~/myandroid/device/fsl$ git apply 0002-Change-the-default-boot-parameters-to-be-1080-HDMI-p.patch

0002-Change-the-default-boot-parameters-to-be-1080-HDMI-p.patch:20: trailing whitespace.

BOARD_KERNEL_CMDLINE := console=ttymxc0,115200 init=/init video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60 video=mxcfb1:off video=mxcfb2:off fbmem=28M androidboot.console=ttymxc0 vmalloc=400M

error: patch failed: sabresd_6dq/BoardConfig.mk:6

error: sabresd_6dq/BoardConfig.mk: patch does not apply

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hi Kai,

A few comments here:

  1. The patch above configures a default kernel command-line, which is almost never used (U-Boot and/or a boot script will override it), and
  2. This has nothing to do with SATA, and
  3. In order to use Android with SATA, you'll need to change the init.freescale.rc script to mount /dev/sda# instead of /dev/mmcblk0p#

Regards,

Eric

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kaisun1
Contributor III

hI ERIC,

    My operation  as follows:

1.make menuconfig :add the driver.

2./myandroid/device/fsl/imx6/etc/init.rc:

exportSECONDARY_STORAGE /mnt/extsd:/mnt/udisk:/mnt/udisk2:/mnt/sata

mkdir /mnt/udisk 0000 system system

    symlink /mnt/udisk /udisk

    mkdir /mnt/udisk2 0000 system system

    symlink /mnt/udisk2 /udisk2

    mkdir /mnt/sata 0000 system system

    symlink /mnt/sata /sata

3.on the /myandroid/device/fsl/imx6/sabresd/vold.fstab  flie:

dev_mount udisk2 /mnt/udisk2  auto /devices/platform/fsl-ehci.1/usb2

dev_mount sata   /mnt/sata auto /devices/platform/ahci.0

And now the phenomenon is: you can see through the HyperTerminal:

    

drwx------ root     root              2013-05-24 10:19 root

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-01-02 00:37 sata -> /mnt/sata

drwxr-x--- root     root              1970-01-01 00:00 sbin

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-01-02 00:37 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-01-02 00:37 udisk -> /mnt/udisk

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-01-02 00:37 udisk2 -> /mnt/udisk2

-rw-r--r-- root     root         2616 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.freescale.rc

-rw-r--r-- root     root          272 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.goldfish.rc

-rw-r--r-- root     root         3825 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.rc

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-01-02 00:37 vendor -> /system/vendo

root@android:/mnt # ls -al

drwxr-xr-x root     system            1970-01-01 00:00 asec

d--------- system   system            1970-01-01 00:00 extsd

drwxr-xr-x root     system            1970-01-01 00:00 obb

d--------- system   system            1970-01-01 00:00 sata

d---rwxr-x system   sdcard_rw          1970-01-01 00:00 sdcard

drwx------ root     root              1970-01-01 00:00 secure

drwxrwxr-x system   graphics          1970-01-01 00:00 shm

d--------- system   system            1970-01-01 00:00 udisk

d--------- system   system            1970-01-01 00:00 udisk2

we can see the sata is d---------

Currently you can see this folder, but it can not be read/write, please help me analyze where is the problem, thank you very much ~!

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hi Kai,

I think the permissions problem stems from this:

mkdir /mnt/udisk 0000 system system

The 0000 is the permissions mask in octal and 0000 means that nobody can read or write to that directory.

I'm not sure whether the rest will work or not...

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kaisun1
Contributor III

Hi ,

      i konw what it the problem, beacuse of my ssd is ext3 format, when i change it to FAT32 format ,it is ok , but the FAT32 format is too poor. i need ntfs format. can you know it?

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hello Kai,

We're prepping a new release (with images) of Jellybean and have tested against SATA.


Check in on our blog tomorrow and I think you'll find what you're looking for.

          http://boundarydevices.com/blog

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kaisun1
Contributor III

HI eric,

         i have change 0755 but is not effective.  then i found the sdcard  is also 0000.

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EricNelson
Senior Contributor II

Hi Elangovan,

I don't know that we tested SATA back on 2.6.38. Is there a reason you can't jump to the latest Linux kernel?

Note that SATA doesn't function well in U-Boot on the v2009.08 tree, but is working really well in the main-line U-Boot tree.

We've been recommending that customers use SD card as their first-level boot (to load a kernel and optional ram disk), then use SATA for their root filesystem after boot until we fully switch to the newer U-Boot code.


Regards,

Eric

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