Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-03-24 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:11:24PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > The openrd_base image in the Debian u-boot package is supposed to > work for OpenRD-Base, OpenRD-Client, and OpenRD-Ultimate. If it > does not, please file a bug report. So I have just discovered that this is only partially true. U-B

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread David Given
On 24/03/11 23:26, Bryce Harrington wrote: [...] > I see this includes -vesa, although as Luke pointed out perhaps since > it's an x86 bios function it is not needed on armel? It's a tiny, tiny > driver so definitely no biggy to keep it in if there's any conceivable > doubt that it might be needed

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011, Colin Tuckley wrote: > I expect the number of boards with PCIe to increase slowly since the ARM > Versatile Express reference board has PCIe connectors. These are not > currently used because the design expects the root complex to be on the > processor tile and none of the cur

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 24 March 2011 23:57, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and > > notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps > > irrelevant.  I'm wondering if we

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bryce: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:13:26PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> > >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds like only -fbdev is >> > really needed from this list.  (Drivers that seem worth including such >> >

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Rtp
Bryce Harrington writes: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:13:26PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> > >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds like only -fbdev is >> > really needed from this list.  (Drivers that seem worth including such >> > as -dovefb, -omapfb, -imx, etc. are no

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:13:26PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds like only -fbdev is > > really needed from this list.  (Drivers that seem worth including such > > as -dovefb, -omapfb, -imx, etc. are not in the list and perhaps should

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Colin Tuckley
On 24/03/11 22:13, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > the questions that should be asked are: > > * are there any PCI / AGP / PCI-e ARM-based motherboards out there? (i > know of one or two PCI-based ones - certainly no AGP ones. there > *does* however exist the OpenRD Ultimate which has a P

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 24 March 2011 23:57, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and > notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps > irrelevant.  I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from > xserver-xorg-video-all? FWIW, this BR has b

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and > notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps > irrelevant.  I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from > xserver-xorg-video-all? > >  xserve

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and > notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps > irrelevant.  I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from > xserver-xorg-video-all? You have m

X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps irrelevant. I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from xserver-xorg-video-all? xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xse

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread Jose Solorio
I agree with both Hans and JFS, They helped me get it configured and running properly. I will say do not follow the video that comes up when you search for "ss4000e debian install" it put me in a path where I could not boot without me typing commands to boot it. Debian on this device is much better

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread JF Straeten
Re, On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:11:27PM +0100, H wrote: > > I have a confusion about installing Debian on this NAS device. I'd like to > > do > > that and there are instructions on the list to follow but I don't want to > > remove the usual NAS functionality. > I've installed Debian on my NAS

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread H
chris wilkinson wrote on 20110324: > I have a confusion about installing Debian on this NAS device. I'd like to do > that and there are instructions on the list to follow but I don't want to > remove the usual NAS functionality. Why ? I've installed Debian on my NAS an

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread Tim Small
On 24/03/11 17:49, chris wilkinson wrote: > The end result I'm trying to achieve is a NAS functioning as normal but also > with Debian so I can add further functions such as Apache. > Your options are probably: 0. Do all the "NAS Stuff" from within Debian - i.e. set up Samba etc. yourself - j

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread John Winters
On 24/03/11 17:49, chris wilkinson wrote: I have a confusion about installing Debian on this NAS device. I'd like to do that and there are instructions on the list to follow but I don't want to remove the usual NAS functionality. My question is: will updating the firmware also remove the stock w

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread Danny Rodriguez
Yes. Essentially you will be overwriting all stock software functionality with Debian. If Apache is your goal then fine. If you expect any increased performance you'll be greatly disappointed. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, chris wilkinson wrote: > I have a confusion abou

RE: Native Toolchain for SS4000E

2011-03-24 Thread Weidong Li
Yes, it required NDA, but I did not know that it also required a corporate entity. The compiler tool chain is not based on open source, but it generates code with very good performance. The Linux version may not be fully sync'ed up with the current gcc version. -Original Message- From:

Re: Native Toolchain for SS4000E

2011-03-24 Thread chris wilkinson
Weidong Li marvell.com> writes: > > If you log in to Marvell's tech support site, http://www.marvell.com/support.html, you should be able to > find the Intel/Marvell XScale compiler tool chains by clicking through this path: My Products > Cellular > & Handheld Solutions > Development Tools > G

Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-24 Thread chris wilkinson
I have a confusion about installing Debian on this NAS device. I'd like to do that and there are instructions on the list to follow but I don't want to remove the usual NAS functionality. My question is: will updating the firmware also remove the stock web interface and functionality? The end

Re: ARM support to be removed from IcedTea

2011-03-24 Thread Xerxes Rånby
> http://gbenson.net/?p=257 > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/012556.html > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013044.html > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013059.html > http://gbenson.net/?p=239 To cl

RE: Native Toolchain for SS4000E

2011-03-24 Thread Weidong Li
If you log in to Marvell's tech support site, http://www.marvell.com/support.html, you should be able to find the Intel/Marvell XScale compiler tool chains by clicking through this path: My Products > Cellular & Handheld Solutions > Development Tools > General > C++ SDT ... There should be com

ARM support to be removed from IcedTea

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
http://gbenson.net/?p=257 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/012556.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013044.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013059.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pau