That worked great, thank you!

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.

-Anant


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:
> >
> > 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.
>
> mk should've created 9pi and s9pi.  Copy 9pi to the fat partition, not
> s9pi.
>
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> The RPi boot program doesn't know about plan9 executables. It
> 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.
>
> > 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?
>
> This thread may help:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/ycok6NTCWCg
>
> Ideally you shouldn't need more than create a custom kbmap file.
>
>