Hi Ivan, I have the same problem as you with packager/unpackager tool for Allwinner A20, and did you find right software.
Best regards, Dragan Gregurec Dana četvrtak, 3. rujna 2015. u 11:01:10 UTC+2, korisnik Ivan Kozic napisao je: > > Hi all, > > It seems that no one really cares about AW pack tools enough to document > at least a part of it. By Allwinner pack tools I mean various Linux/Windows > proprietary SW coming from AW, like "dragon", "update_mbr", "update_23" etc. > > Since I'm on a good way to figure a part of this out, I'd like to add it > to the linux-sunxi.org if possible, so that everyone can use it, and not > lose days and days finding various SDKs and BSPs only to figure that half > of it is not working... > > Actually the biggest problem is that none of this is documented and these > programs usually do not give you any version or help. And there are at > least 5 different "dragon" versions I've tried - some of them work with > image.cfg + sys_partition.fex, while some of them only seem to use more > advanced image.cfg format and not really needing sys_partition.fex. I've > also noticed that there are different versions of update_mbr for A10 and > A20 - one seems to only put softw311 marker, while the other one works with > softw411 marker. Also some of them can pack by only following symbolic > links to rootfs, while others actually need rootfs.fex in the same folder. > Mixes in SDKs can include anything - I've found combos like 'new dragon + > old update_mbr', which mess up always and produce unreadable images... > sunxi-bsp set of tools on the other hand looks very broken to me, as there > is no A20 support per say - there are script files for A20 boards, but > allwinner-tools used by sunxi-bsp only produce images suited for A10 > (softw311) and maybe A13 (these are the only two in the eFex configuration > files)... > > I would also like to point out that most info regarding MBR structure is > now well known (for A20 - boot1 source code contains wboot_mbr.h header > which has the packed MBR layout), so I think update_mbr can already be > deprecated and changed to a better suited open-source version. If I had any > +time, I'd happily write this out and try it... > > As I said, wiki pages on linux-sunxi are just making things worse by not > really explaining any of this and yet somehow making everything even more > complicated (just look at Software section under > http://linux-sunxi.org/LiveSuit_images - I have no idea what is the point > of that section). > So I'd just like to know how I can (or if I may in fact) change/append to > linux-sunxi.org? > > Cheers! > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
