Am 02.07.2010 09:03 schrieb Markus Wigge: >>> I finally managed to port another patch for the flashmap driver and the >>> firmware-tools to prevent overriding the second images space. >>> Now the device works quite stable with 8MB and without any nvram tweeking. >> >> Actually, I do have 16MB total after flashing. (I just have to install >> packages which didn't fit in manually afterwards.) Why should you want >> to leave 8MB alone? > because it should work for everybody out of the box without tweaking any > nvram settings beyond normal usage. And for me 8MB is enough for most > scenarios because the hardware is too slow to run too much simultaneously...
Hmm, "Tweaking" nvram-settings is what OpenWrt does anyway in nvram.init, so actually it does work out of the box. I don't see a problem with that. They are called "settings" for a reason, aren't they? Also, as the device is equipped with 16MB flash, they should be available. Limiting the use of the hardware just because you think the user won't have any use for it doesn't make any sense at all. (I for example do have use for it. Add btrfs, tinyproxy, samba, a bunch of network tools and ipv6 support and your 8MB are full.) Those 16MB are the reason I bought the box. If you cut them off it's like breaking the device, not an improvement. N.K. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
