Re: Toshiba AC100

2010-10-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 08.10.2010, 21:24 +0100 schrieb Phil Endecott: > I hope there are others out there interested in this machine, the first > of its kind. ... great to see that there is debian interest, as one of the devs who work on the image, i'd like to point you guys to some missing points .

Re: Toshiba AC100

2010-10-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: >> 2010/10/18 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : >>> i have received the Toshiba AC100 GPL kernel sources, kindly supplied >>> by toshiba digital media >>> group, by CD.  i hav

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:08 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Another approach would be to use a u-boot environment variable to save > and restore the (approximate) time. The advantage is that it could be > done before fscking any filesystems, at the cost of some additional > wear on the flash. > No ma

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Martin, thanks for your effort. Just a question: Have the patched been updated from intel side? I'm asking because yesterday -- coincidential on the same day as Nathan ;-) -- I played with my Thecus and the DMA enabled kernel on your repository. Along the kernel, I also install the linux-li

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, peter green wrote: > Many arm systems don't have a rtc. This means every time they reboot > the clock goes back to the epoch. Clocks going back to the epoch > causes all sorts of issues (some versions of fsck fail, make won't > work properly, logs will be impossible to relate

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Eric Cooper
Another approach would be to use a u-boot environment variable to save and restore the (approximate) time. The advantage is that it could be done before fscking any filesystems, at the cost of some additional wear on the flash. No matter where you store the time, when restoring it you could also

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:04:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Many arm systems don't have a rtc. This means every time they reboot the > clock goes back to the epoch. Clocks going back to the epoch causes all > sorts of issues (some versions of fsck fail, make won't work properly, > logs wil

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Bauer
Hi ! Last year i tried a backported kernel which gave me nice results on N2100. I remember I got around ~6 MB during read and write over Network on NFS file share, but with processor load ~95%. http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-iop32x If you really like a fast

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Markus Kreiner [2010-10-21 19:47]: > > To begin with, can you show us your /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free ... I'll take this off line so we don't spam the list. -- M

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Markus Kreiner
> To begin with, can you show us your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates m

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Markus Kreiner [2010-10-21 17:17]: > so it seems i don't get that, and haven't had before. could someone > be of assistance for a noob like me? It works for me. To begin with, can you show us your /etc/apt/sources.list -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Markus Kreiner
> repository was out of date.  I've updated it now.  If you run: > >    apt-get update >    apt-get dist-upgrade > > You'll get 2.6.26-25lenny1dma1. so it seems i don't get that, and haven't had before. could someone be of assistance for a noob like me? if followed this http://www.cyrius.com/debi

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Markus Kreiner [2010-10-21 01:37]: > i *think* i also got the kernel with the DMA-patches, but am too much > a linux novice to tell for sure, uname -a says: > Linux debian 2.6.26-2-iop32x #1 Thu Sep 16 18:42:37 UTC 2010 armv5tel > GNU/Linux I was on holidays when 2.6.26-25lenny1 was released s

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Markus Kreiner
> The DMA kernels are out of date.  I'm updating them right now. cool, thanks, but i doubt this helps in my case - as haven't got that bad a performance on the box itself, but really poor one over any network-connection (tried samba and ftp so far). any other ideas? thanks, markus. -- To UNSUB

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathan [2010-10-21 20:20]: > > Linux debian 2.6.26-2-iop32x #1 Thu Sep 16 18:42:37 UTC 2010 armv5tel > > GNU/Linux > > I downloaded the .deb files from Martin's repository and installed them > that way. On my 2100, uname gives the following output: > > Linux debian 2.6.26-2-iop32x #1 Sat Jun

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Nathan
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:37:07 +0200, Markus Kreiner wrote: > i *think* i also got the kernel with the DMA-patches, but am too much > a linux novice to tell for sure, uname -a says: > Linux debian 2.6.26-2-iop32x #1 Thu Sep 16 18:42:37 UTC 2010 armv5tel > GNU/Linux I downloaded the .deb files from

fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread peter green
Many arm systems don't have a rtc. This means every time they reboot the clock goes back to the epoch. Clocks going back to the epoch causes all sorts of issues (some versions of fsck fail, make won't work properly, logs will be impossible to relate to each other, and very annoying forced passw