Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread David Given
Jason Edgecombe wrote: [...] what about the openrd-client? It looks like you can order it on the globalscale web site. I'll take a look --- Marvell's web site still says 'Availability: COMING SOON'. I kind of get the impression that Marvell and GlobalScale were overwhelmed by demand. I wond

Decent Java on debian-arm?

2009-06-16 Thread David Given
Does anyone know of a proper JRE with JIT for debian-arm? I'm going to want to run servlets via jetty or something. sun-jre seems to be Intel only, OpenJDK is purely interpreted, and Cacao is still in sid and (apparently) really unstable. Is Kaffe still a contender these days? -- David Given

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
David Given wrote: Steve Pirk wrote: [...] Wow. That's what I get for not exploring a mfgr's offerings before leaping off the Sheevaplug cliff :-) Shiva is awesome, but this already does 3 times more than what I thought I might get the sheev a to do, any extra power this pulls over a sheeva

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, David Given wrote: Last I looked the OpenRD wasn't out yet. DENIED! Arrrggghhh!!! lol I know what you mean; my home server is now running off a SheevaPlug, and it is definitely a bit stressed. It's got five USB hard drives hanging off the single USB channel, and it

Re: How to make sure my plug boots from the USB flash-stick instead of the USB hard-disk?

2009-06-16 Thread David Given
Rick Thomas wrote: [...] Is there some way of communicating with the developers of Uboot to see if they could patch it to optionally look for labels or UUIDs when searching for its boot device? Maybe. U-boot's USB support certainly needs work. [...] Booting from SD is discussed on the current

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread David Given
Steve Pirk wrote: [...] Wow. That's what I get for not exploring a mfgr's offerings before leaping off the Sheevaplug cliff :-) Shiva is awesome, but this already does 3 times more than what I thought I might get the sheev a to do, any extra power this pulls over a sheeva is worth it. What a

Re: How to make sure my plug boots from the USB flash-stick instead of the USB hard-disk?

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 27, 2009, at 5:14 AM, David Given wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: [...] If you look at bootcmd_usb you'll see something like "ext2load usb 0:1". 0:1 defines the device and partition. Unfortunately, I don't know whether you can force any consistent device naming in u-boot. I suppose you

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread Steve Pirk
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 3:39 AM, John Hughes wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on-chip ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home router/firewall/IPv6-tunnel-endpoint with a Debian shivaplug. I think you wa

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 12, 2009, at 3:39 AM, John Hughes wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on- chip ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home router/firewall/IPv6- tunnel-endpoint with a Debian shivaplug. I think you want the "openrd" http://globalscalet

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.30-rc8

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mathias Waack [2009-06-16 19:47]: > So here comes the beginners question: what shall I do to use this > feature? How do I build a kernel for my qnap containing these > patches? Is there some qnap- specific documentation or should I > follow the debian howtos? Unfortunately, I don't think there'

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.30-rc8

2009-06-16 Thread Mathias Waack
Hello Martin, On Monday 15 June 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * John Holland [2009-06-11 21:53]: > > Does anyone know if and when Marvel is planning kernel support for the > > hw crypto block?. > > Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, who has been working on this, posted some > initial patches a few day