On 05/26/2016 07:05 PM, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 16:57 -0700, gree...@candelatech.com wrote:
From: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
This should make x86-64 targets more useable out of the box.
The assumption is that most x86-64 users have adequate storage,
and those that do not can still config away the options they
do not need.
Although I agree x86-64 is normally big, I'm not sure that it makes
sense to make the default install so different from other devices. One
thing you might want to look is that patch series I've got as URFC's for
doing things like preferring full vs. busybox and see if you could
implement this as something that could be added via a single package
install (or from imagebuilder baked into the image by specifying a
single package).
I'm not sure that making big/extra/different stuff part of snapshot and
release images is a good idea (although including more drivers is
different IMO, because that is about hardware support out of the box,
rather than about different choices about what's in the OS (unlike full
bzip2, getopt, different busybox options, etc)). I think the user should
consciously decide they're looking for something other than a standard
LEDE system.
So maybe getopt is not needed, but here is my reasoning for some of the
others:
tcpdump: Grab pkt captures, especially in monitor mode for debugging.
Pkt capture is pretty much required for debugging tricky things,
especially
with something like ath10k that has thick firmware.
ethtool: Low level stats, firmware version, etc. Automated bug reporting.
lspci: Automated bug reporting, figure out what driver is missing from random
hardware.
curl: Download scripts and other things from the web, including in automated
fashion.
iw: Automated bug reporting, manual debugging.
iperf3: Easy way to do performance testing. Could be part of automated
performance testing.
I think if space allows, these should be added to all or most images,
but I wanted to start with a platform that I use and can test, and which
has no space constraints in most cases. So, this more full image could
start being more the 'standard LEDE' system.
I can do this all with the buildme logic in my 2/2 patch too, so maybe that
is the way to go.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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