Re: kexec on kirkwood kernels?

2011-01-26 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hallo, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:00:24PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > Has anyone successfully used kexec to boot one kirkwood kernel from > another? I've been trying to do it on a Seagate DockStar, but > all I see is this: > > # kexec -l --append="console=ttyS0,115200" zImage > # kexec -

Re: FASTEST plug computer

2011-01-26 Thread John Winters
On 26/01/11 16:19, Samuele Bianchi wrote: Hi! I'm using an e-sata sheevaplug ( NewIt version ) since 1 year and i'm very proud of my plug computer with Debian 6. Today i have seen this plug from ionics web site: http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus2000.html Is it avaiable an installer for this plug ?

kexec on kirkwood kernels?

2011-01-26 Thread Eric Cooper
Has anyone successfully used kexec to boot one kirkwood kernel from another? I've been trying to do it on a Seagate DockStar, but all I see is this: # kexec -l --append="console=ttyS0,115200" zImage # kexec -e [ 35.553632] Starting new kernel Uncompressing Linux... done, booting

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:04:04AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It's mostly for historical reasons - it works and there's no obvious > reason to change. echoing binary is a big ugly perhaps. devio takes hex input and outputs binary nicely. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: QNAP TS-219P upgrade from lenny to squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rob J. Epping [2011-01-22 22:01]: > Does anyone on this list know why the UUID would change? And if this > is documented somewhere? It might be a good idea to send your question to debian-ker...@lists.debian.org and the mdadm maintainer: pkg-mdadm-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- Martin Michlm

Re: FASTEST plug computer

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Samuele Bianchi [2011-01-26 11:19]: > Today i have seen this plug from ionics web site: > http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus2000.html > > Is it avaiable an installer for this plug ? It has a Marvell > 88F6282RISC at 2.0 Ghz instead of Marvell 88F6281 at 1.2 ghz. This device is not supported at

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthew Palmer [2011-01-26 22:14]: > > I have some questions about that: 1. Why using devio at all, would > > not it be easier to use echo? > I'm *guessing* it's for readability, but honestly I have no idea. Martin > Michlmayr is probably the go-to guy for that sort of thing. It's mostly for h

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tanguy Ortolo [2011-01-26 12:25]: > Thanks, it already has one: > bubba3 MACH_BUBBA3 BUBBA3 2893 > (Bubba is the old name for Excito home servers: Bubba and Bubba|2, the > third model's marketing name having been shortened to B3) While there's a machine id, there's no

guruplug 2.6.37 lvm2 problem

2011-01-26 Thread Jason
All, I have a small problem that's I've been beating my head against for two days. I've installed debian onto an sdcard according to [1]. This required a new U-boot [2]. For grins, I chose encrypted LVM. It works fine with the 2.6.33.3flipflip kernel [3]. However, I'm trying to get 2.6.3

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2011-01-26 Thread Super doma
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FASTEST plug computer

2011-01-26 Thread Samuele Bianchi
Hi! I'm using an e-sata sheevaplug ( NewIt version ) since 1 year and i'm very proud of my plug computer with Debian 6. Today i have seen this plug from ionics web site: http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus2000.html Is it avaiable an installer for this plug ? It has a Marvell 88F6282RISC at 2.0 G

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011, Wookey a écrit : > The list is available here: > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ > > The excito B3 is not listed under that name but then things are > usually under some kind of dev name, not the final marketing name Sure: it is named “Bubba3”, id 2893

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Marc Pignat
Hi all! On Wednesday 26 January 2011 12:14:01 Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:43:12AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: ... > > > 2. How can such a kernel, prepended with some bytes, be > >bootable at all, as this shifts its entry point and all its data? > > That's an excellent

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Tanguy Ortolo [2011-01-26 11:43 +0100]: > 3. Where are these machine ids defined in the kernel? I hope Excito B3 >are already known… The list is available here: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ The excito B3 is not listed under that name but then things are usually under s

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > 2. How can such a kernel, prepended with some bytes, be > >bootable at all, as this shifts its entry point and all its data? > That's an excellent question. I kinda assumed that the bytes were actually > ARM machine code, but I've ne

Call for Participation: Genesi Sprint at San Antonio, TX, March 30-April 3

2011-01-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi everyone, As a follow-up event to http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/EmdebianSprint Genesi is also organizing an event in San Antonio. Details about the event can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/GenesiSprintSanAntonio We would like all interested parties to add their names

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011, Matthew Palmer a écrit : >> 3. Where are these machine ids defined in the kernel? I hope Excito B3 >>are already known??? > > I believe the file of interest is arch/arm/tools/mach-types. Depending on > whether the device is actually the same hardware as another, i

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:43:12AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Now, I have questions about the machine id. In flash-kernel, this is a > number that is prepended to the kernel before creating the uImage. For > instance, for "Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live": > kfile="/boot/vmlinuz-$kvers" > #

Re: Porting Debian to the Excito B3

2011-01-26 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > You may get some ideas of things that need to be done from a lengthy blog > article I wrote about my experiences porting d-i to the DNS-323: > http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/porting_d-i_to_the_dns_323.html Nice, thank you. This conf