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I've updated the first post to include powerpc version for the B2 which works well and doesn't need a new u-boot. I also replaced the source links with link to the community-b3-kernel github repo Excito provided for the community-driven updated kernel for debian.

Solution from ahoff will work fine (it's the excito official way) ; you can also install directly from the OS with the following commands :

johannes wrote:Did you see this?
http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/R ... Arch_Linux

Everyone capable is trying to port their favorite distribution on the b3 ; debian 7, archlinux now gentoo... I believe Slackware arm is next and I know some people which would probably be interested ...

sakaki wrote:No soldering, compilation or U-Boot flashing is required.

Where is the fun ?

This is an amazing work, extremly well documented. Congratulation ; I will certainly look on everything for inspiration...

Would one of you be willing to provide a summary of **all** the steps needed for this in a single post (or a Wiki How To?), as well as saying why you'd want to do this and what it achieves for those of us watching with more excitement than understanding? :-) Well "this" is for now a work-...

I wonder if for safety it would be possible to have packages dependencies set up just like Debian, where you can have several kernels installed in parallel. In case something goes wrong at an update, it would allow to go back to a previous version. Short answer : no ; there are at least two reasons...

I've compiled the newest 3.2.62 version of the kernel. The links of the first post are updated. This version is the first to be compiled directly on a b3 device (FYI 3 hours compilation).

My python script is not very reliable and even worse I cannot make it work anymore myself. However recent versions of u-boot ships a little program for this task, kwboot, which works well at least for me. It is included in the Excito version, so You just need to compile it on the computer with the s...

I opened a new thread in the development forum to discuss about kernel upgrade, as it is an other subject. You can find it here with links to a working 3.2.61 kernel .

Hello everyone, After wheezy install image and u-boot update, I managed to patch and compile a 3.2.61 kernel package for the bubba3 and the bubba|two. I choose this version because it's the one debian uses in wheezy. It runs apparently fine on my b3 and on my b2, so I need some volunteers to test it...

In any case, if the u-boot from MouettE can be verified and upgrading to it can made to be an official Excito release, this would definitely open up the possibility to create a new bubba-kernel of version 3.x and change distribution without loosing the Bubba OS front end. I guess that would make a ...

Damarus wrote:This is great progress! So is this image safe to flash without serial access?

It should be reasonably safe ... But maybe someone else with serial access should try it first.

paulchany wrote: Can I use a regular A-B USB cable as is described at this link bellow?
http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?t=1000

Short answer : No
You need some logic to convert TTL signal to RS-232 (and then to USB if you don't have a serial connector on your PC).

I would really much like to understand (and fix) this MAC adress resetting problem. Any help would be welcome! After digging into the source code of u-boot I figured out why the net links weren't properly initialized in u-boot and how to fix it ; you need to edit the file include/configs/bubba3.h a...

I have a serial connection to by B3. Usually I use screen to connect. How do I inject the magic chars (0xBB 0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77) to invoke the hardware loader? I have writter a small python script for this task, you can download it from uboot-loader.zip . Here's a quick how-to : I've...