That worked great, thank you!-Anant
I was able to get the keyboard to work as well, but it seems there is a different bug where plugging in both a keyboard and mouse at the same time causes usb/kb to fail.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:01:53 PDT Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> wrote:mk should've created 9pi and s9pi. Copy 9pi to the fat partition, not s9pi.
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> 1. I'm trying to get a custom built kernel to boot but not having great
> luck, unfortunately. I got as far as "mk 'CONF=pi'" in /sys/src/9/bcm
> (those are the latest sources, correct?) which generated a 2M kernel named
> 's9pi'. I added that to the FAT partition on the standard 9pi SD card image
> and edited config.txt to point to it. Now, when I boot I see a rainbow
> pattern screen -- switching back to the 9pi kernel in config.txt makes it
> boot again.
The RPi boot program doesn't know about plan9 executables. It
> What am I doing wrong?
will just copy the bits from the kernel file specified in
config.txt at address 0x8000 and jump there. See 9/bcm/words
for some details.
This thread may help:
> 2. A couple of my keyboards don't work with the standard kernel on the SD
> card (the mouse works fine). Is /sys/src/omap/usbehciomap.c the right place
> for me to start looking into adding support for them?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/ycok6NTCWCg
Ideally you shouldn't need more than create a custom kbmap file.