Stanislav, I don't wish to belittle your efforts, and I think this will be genuinely useful to quite a few people, however it's worth noting that BR6104KP is not the only target that could benefit from USB-root, therefore, one can see a series of profiles springing up alongside every single target capable of USB (why not 4MB devices as well?). Even in the Edimax range you have BR-6204Wg (2mb flash, USB).
If I were a developer (and I'm not, I hasten to add), I would consider this a maintenance nightmare. Don't forget that USB-root is not the only possibility. You could also have MMC-root or NFS root on pretty much any router in existence. It would be far better if there were some configuration option which switched this, although I'm not sure exactly how that can be achieved. This might be why nobody has committed the patch. rgds, biff. --- On Wed, 29/10/08, Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Edimax BR6104KP profile with rootfs on a > USB drive > To: "OpenWrt Development List" <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> > Date: Wednesday, 29 October, 2008, 12:33 PM > Guys, > what's the expectancy of this patch to be committed? If > there is anything > more I could do, please let me know. > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:55:27 PM > > Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Edimax BR6104KP > profile with rootfs on a USB drive > > > > The Edimax BR6104KP router (also available as > > Omnima Embedded Controller from > http://www.omnima.co.uk/ > > with JTAG and serial already soldered in) has only 2MB > > > onboard flash, which is too small for any usable Linux > setup. > > The board has also two USB1.1 interfaces, and this > patch introduces > > a new profile that builds two images: the flash image > containing > > the LZMA loader and the kernel (less than 900KB), and > a > > tar.gz archive of the root filesystem. The kernel > looks to mount > > the rootfs as ext3 or ext2 on /dev/sda1. > > > > The patches for include/image.mk and > include/kernel-defaults.mk > > extend the existing functionality and should not hurt > any existing > > profile. > > > > To use the new profile, choose in menuconfig: > > Target System: Infineon/ADMtek ADM5120 [2.6] > > Target Profile: Edimax BR-6104KP (USB Root FS) > > > > The patch was tested, and by default it supports the > onboard switch and > > the USB storage. Other kernel modules should function > as well. > > > > The next step will be to utilize the unused space in > the onboard flash > > to store the persistent configuration, so that > updating the rootfs would > > not hurt it. > > > > A copy of the patch is available at > > > http://torrus.org/openwrt.trunk.13018.br6104kp-usbroot.20081021.patch > > It should work against the SVN trunk at revision 13018 > > > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Sinyagin > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
