Hi qecko wrote: > Hi, >
I had some discussions with Vision Systems a while ago - they asked for help with porting - I'm really happy that you have managed to finish the port. Are you directly working with Vision Systems? > I successfully finished porting OpenWrt to a new hardware platform > called OpenRISC/Alekto, based on an ARM9. > The specification can be found at the vendors website: > http://www.visionsystems.de/produkte/6802.html > I started off with the Kamikaze trunk (r19854) and did the kernel > patches for version 2.6.32. > > The OpenRISC/Alekto comes with two different WLAN cards: > The first one is RaLink 2561 which is supported via rt61-pci. This card > needs an additional binary driver from the vendor placed in > "/lib/firmware". This card works in general, but sometimes the reload of > the binary driver fails (for example when restarting networking). > The second one is an Atheros WLM54G which works fine with ath5k. > > Alekto has an own BIOS which can boot from different devices like the > internal microSD card or an compact flash card. Therefore I copy the > linux kernel image directly into the root-filesystem ("/boot/zImage") - > like common for x86. The BIOS passes the kernel parameters specified in > "/boot/kparam" to the kernel. Right now the parameters are > "init=/etc/preinit root=/dev/sda1" because I'm using the internal > microSD card. Would be really good if the system would run from onboard flash? > > The device runs as router at my home since one week - without any problems. > I did not tested the Backfire release yet, hopefully I'll do next week. The difference between trunk and backfire is not big atm. > > Please review my patches. It would be great if the patches could be > applied to the SVN. > Will be looked at :-) > Thanks - qecko > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel -- Gregers Petersen Relationship manager, layer 8 and anthropology glp on irc _______ ________ __ | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M KAMIKAZE (bleeding edge) ----------------------- * 10 oz Vodka Shake well with ice and strain * 10 oz Triple sec mixture into 10 shot glasses. * 10 oz lime juice Salute! --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
