Hi Miguel,

thanks, and committed.

On 31 July 2012 09:31, Miguel GAIO <miguel.g...@efixo.com> wrote:
>> 2) I made the realtek patch a platform patch, because I do not know
>> the impact on other devices using this switch (which didn't need it).
>> 3) I added a network config for it
>> 4) I commented out the nb6 image build, since even with network
>> working you can't do much with it
>
> Hopefully, once your patches are submitted, I can help to get more
> working (namely wireless)

Getting wireless to work is one of the last things I expected, so I'm
quite curious about how you will do it :-)

>> I am more or less ready to commit this, but I am missing your
>> signed-off-by. Can you please either reply with it or resend the board
>> patch with it added? I created a branch on github with what I plan to
>> submit, so you can use that to check that I did not miss anything (
>> https://github.com/KanjiMonster/openwrt/tree/neufbox6 ).
>
>> I have some additional questions though:
>>
>> How is one supposed to flash the NB6 without serial access? At least I
>> did not find anything in the web interface that allowed me to flash an
>> image, and the CFE does not provide a web interface either.
>>
> Without serial access, users have to use bootp method via SFR button.
>
>
>> What's the "tftpboot"? I noticed that if I have the "SFR" button
>> pressed when powering the device up, CFE prints "** tftpboot
>> requested", but then shortly after that CFE crashes.
>
> To use SFR button you have to:
>  - setup DHCP server to provide board IP address
>  - The DHCP answer needs tftp serveur and bootp image
>  - Depending on nature of provided image,
>  the cfe can boot vmlinux or burns new tagged image
>
> You can found a wiki at neufbox4.org (in french) which contains HOWTOs
> http://www.neufbox4.org/wiki/index.php?title=Flasher_une_NB6

That's neat, thanks for the explanation. Maybe somebody should add
this to the OpenWrt wiki *cough* *lazy*.

>> Lastly, you added an image build for "NB6-SER-r0", shouldn't you also
>> add one for "NB6-FXC-r0"? Or do they not care about the board id?
>>
> Board id is not care.

Great. I decided to enable building the images, since it allows people
to play with it, but unless we manage to get bcm63xx migrated to
swconfig before the AA, I don't know if it makes sense to have it
built for the release.


Jonas
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