Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Robert Hancock wrote: >> and that's just within *one* of the fabless semiconductor companies, >> and you have to bear in mind that there are *several hundred* ARM >> licensees. when this topic was last raised, someone mentioned that >> ARM attempted to standardise

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
On 05/05/2013 06:27 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: this message came up on debian-arm and i figured that it is worthwhile endeavouring to get across to people why device tree cannot and will not ever be the solution it was believed to be, in the ARM world. [just a quick note to david wh

Re: Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Frank Tarczynski writes: > /dev/sda: > setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error > APM_level = not supported Ok, I have no idea if this is a problem with the drive or your system. Can you try moving the drive to some x86 system and try

Re: Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Frank Tarczynski
On 5/5/2013 1:29 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Frank Tarczynski writes: Device Model: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 Firmware Version: 05.01D05 User Capacity:1,000,204,886,016 bytes ok, does "hdparm -B255 /dev/sda" help? root@MyBookWorld:~# hdparm -B255 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advance

Re: Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Frank Tarczynski writes: > Device Model: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 > Firmware Version: 05.01D05 > User Capacity:1,000,204,886,016 bytes ok, does "hdparm -B255 /dev/sda" help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Frank Tarczynski
On 5/5/2013 12:21 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Frank Tarczynski writes: But I'm having trouble having the hard drive spin-down after periods of no use. What hard drive do you have? smartctl -a /dev/sda should tell. ~# smartctl -d sat -x /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [armv5tel-u

Re: Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Frank Tarczynski writes: > But I'm having trouble having the hard drive spin-down after periods > of no use. What hard drive do you have? smartctl -a /dev/sda should tell. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Why can't I spin down hard disk in MyBook World Edition?

2013-05-05 Thread Frank Tarczynski
I have installed Debian Squeeze in a MyBook World Edition NAS device. So far just about everything is running fine. But I'm having trouble having the hard drive spin-down after periods of no use. #uname -a reports: Linux MyBookWorld 2.6.24.4 #1 Thu Apr 1 16:43:58 CST 2010 armv5tejl GNU/Lin

device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
this message came up on debian-arm and i figured that it is worthwhile endeavouring to get across to people why device tree cannot and will not ever be the solution it was believed to be, in the ARM world. [just a quick note to david who asked this question on the debian-arm mailing list: any chan

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread David Pottage
On 05/05/13 07:49, Jean-Marc wrote: Hi guys, I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services (webserver, wiki, xmpp server, mail server, ...). I took a look at the doc' and found some interesting things here:

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 05 May 2013, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > > I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services > > (webserver, wiki, xmpp se

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi guys, > > I bought a Cubieboard some days ago (http://cubieboard.org). > I would like to install a Debian Testing on it and some useful services > (webserver, wiki, xmpp server, mail server, ...). > > I took a look at the doc' and found some i

Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard

2013-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: > And I have a question: as the Debian installer takes the arch armhf in > charge, do you think a standard install' from a netboot image will work ? As far as I can tell, Debian doesn't have a version of the Linux kernel that will run on this boar