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okay. i'll look for it

yes, I'm pretty sure, but as I said, you might need to adjust the devicetree if you are still using the ramfs

when you were referring to booting into the flash are you referring to the QSPI flash?

oh ok

sorry

depends, IIRC, the default already had two partitions

ok, the second one just wasn't formatted?

ok. yeah because when I pop the SD card in I just see the one partition by default to copy the boot.bin to. I haven't looked at the SD card with a disk utility

i.e. boot into linux, add/adjust/format the partition and copy everything from the rootfs (ram) to the second partition

so what is the main reason you're using the second partition on the SD card?

because I added a bunch of binaries and scripts there for testing

so you still use TFTP to load the main ramdisk but just have your other testing files on the second partition of the SD card?

http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/AXIOM/TFTP/ZED/BERTL.digilent/

thanks. I'll have to play with that sometime soon

so out of curiosity, is this the type of work you do for a living? (fpgas/embedded linux)

I'm doing IT consulting with emphasis on virtualization and embedded systems

cool

my main job now is as a physicist in a hospital (treating cancer patients), so I don't do quite as much software development as my last job let me do (which was about 1/2 time) for data analysis of monte carlo simulations

(positron emission tomography)

we're using a system you'd probably find pretty interesting from a hardware/software point of view

it uses a series of stereoscopic cameras and FPGAs to produce a real-time 3d surface of the patient to monitor their positioning for treatment

http://www.visionrt.com/

yep, sounds interesting ... and LOL @ FPGA :)

a few centuries ago, you couldn't even sell hardware without proper documentation and schematics, etc.

as the physicist our responsibilities are quality assurance of the linear accelerators (that deliver the radiation) and all other equipment involved such as vision RT. but they won't always give you the information you request because its proprietary. its even more complicated when we have systems integrated from competing companies, because neither one wants to take responsibility when there is a problem

it

and it is crazy what those companies charge for a repair

and even if you know, you can fix the damn thing for a few bucks in half an hour, everything has to wait for the engineer, which will sometimes take days to do a simple replacement

yeah, our we have more problems with our IT department. I've never seen one so bad, its ridiculous

but yeah, the IT departments in our hospitals are really bad as well

we're trying to get a new accelerator online and IT wouldn't let the installer have access to the network (kind of required for a computer to talk to the accelerator right?). so one of our physicists spent an hour and drove over, opened the IT closet and just put in a few patch cables (with the installer and IT present). the IT guy said you can't do that. so the physicists told him that if IT wants to remove it he's more than welcom

and they are actually sending patient data unencrypted via email :)

since I got into the health care field I have been surprised at the lack of security

well I've got to get going unfortunately

again, you're welcome! have a good one!