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From: Daniel Morandini <danielmorandini@me.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Getting Started with Kernel Development?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A5D7DAF-4C1D-42FF-9570-9B8F7F685A8D@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5525CBB0882CCD7A2D41C696976D1F5@posteo.net>

Hi,
> Ideally, I'd be able
> to go back and forth between a known good kernel and whatever I'm
> hacking at.  I don't want to be backing up my SD card and restoring it
> over and over again, if at all possible.
Network boot [2]! Starting from rpi 2B v1.2, if you change the OTP
field that allows USB boot mode [1], your SD slot becomes just a
useful SD card reader. Otherwise you need the `bootcode.bin` file
to be in the sd at boot time, but that does not have to change.

Cheers,
dan

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/net.md
[2] http://fqa.9front.org/fqa6.html#6.7

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-25 14:15 chötrin.
2021-04-25 16:07 ` cinap_lenrek
2021-04-25 17:20   ` hiro
2021-04-25 17:21     ` hiro
2021-04-25 23:36     ` Steve Simon
2021-04-26  9:33       ` hiro
2021-04-26 13:01         ` Steve Simon
2021-04-25 22:37   ` chötrin.
2021-04-26 17:08 ` Daniel Morandini [this message]
2021-04-26 17:17   ` hiro
2021-04-27  9:39     ` Daniel Morandini
2021-04-27 11:07       ` cinap_lenrek
2021-04-28  8:34         ` Daniel Morandini
2021-04-29  5:10         ` kjn
2021-04-29 11:07           ` Eli Cohen
2021-04-30  1:12             ` chötrin.
2021-04-30  1:24               ` Eli Cohen
2021-04-30  7:36                 ` hiro
2021-04-26 23:40   ` chötrin.

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