Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-17 Thread Bill Gatliff
down, unless you have a really huge one. >>> >>> It could be a part of it, though maybe not a massive part. On my hacked up NAS uboot takes a few seconds to copy the initramfs from onboard NAND into the system RAM before it launches the kernel. If you ditched ramfs you could cut th

Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
over performance (as they should), it wouldn't surprise me to see one built from the ordinary Debian tools that drags its feet a lot before going to the user prompt. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Arm bof and raspbian.

2013-08-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
at would merit a whole new named release. I don't have a problem with that. Now let's start using those great tools to promote and embrace ecosystem diversity, rather than trying to decide what e.g. a one-true-ARM configuration has to look like. We don't have to leave anyone behind, really... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Plug computer with two eth

2013-03-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
esn't run hot to the touch. I don't understand why this device (and just about every other Marvell chip I have ever encountered) has to kick out so much heat. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
it's both the path of least-resistance and there aren't any ready-made better alternatives; and (b) they're always behind schedule, and the margins are thin enough that there isn't much opportunity for fixing tomorrow's problems today. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
Users are far more accepting of the inevitable failure when they also see that you have planned for it and already have a recovery strategy in place. That's professionalism. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
rent, > then they shouldn't be different. There you go, trying to simplify the universe again. :-) The phones in question are already designed. The unicorn has already left the castle. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.deb

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
m. And if something goes horribly wrong, they see a super-smart "bootloader" (the aforementioned kernel+initramfs) doing a wget, multistrap, ssh, throwing up a web page, or something else intelligent to help them get things back into line. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To U

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
on in most ARM board files should be done as module_init(), not board_init(). If we were to be more vigilant about that, then DT would have more chances to improve things. What were we talking about, again? :-) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-req

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
ace, and test it in userspace. ... and deploy it in userspace, in the form of a kernel+initramfs. In essence, it becomes what the end user sees as "the bootloader". b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
flash. If that kernel+initramfs instead just did a kexec+pivot_root over to whatever it found on disk, I could put my serial cables away forever. Martin Michlmayr is really, really good. But I think he has as little time as I do for these kinds of things! Does anyone else smell dead horse?

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
e device model in something that doesn't require kernel recompilation to change, and you can describe the device model in something that you can parse pre-kernel boot. But I digress... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennart: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > What you are doing is to me a terrible idea that I hate and have always > hated. I hated it on the netwinder in the late 90s, I hated it on the > alpha in the form of MILO. They were always getting out of date and > would be

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
#x27;s why I tend to go that route, rather than making a super-bootloader. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
embedded Debian project, to keep the target filesystem AND developer tools in sync. This isn't me self-promoting (ok, not much). Rather, Debian is just MADE to make this stuff awesome. I'm merely a lowly user thereof. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBS

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
AND flash sizes or any other features that > would make it useful to the debian arm community at all. Know what would be even more amazing than this board? To hear that you did it with the gEDA stack. :-) I'm not suggesting that gEDA couldn't do it, only that many people won't ev

Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
l to invite theft while I'm away. One thing to watch out for is that in some places here it isn't legal to poke at your phone while driving. So I avoid doing that. Just put on the album, and let it play. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
-- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2011104632.ga22...@mrph.org > -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
't get me wrong, I like the Quick Start board too (I think I have one on my desk somewhere, actually). But I don't like the temptation to turn something like that into a product without a lot of additional thought. I'm looking at you too, Beagleboard. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
On Oct 28, 2011 7:37 AM, "Phil Endecott" wrote: > > The i.MX LOCO board, the OMAP panda board, and some of the others cost about the > same as your tablet. > > > Hardware that is not mass produced has some other issues, > > namely availability and vendor lock-in > > You think that your tablet is g

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
On Oct 28, 2011 5:31 AM, "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" wrote: > > i say quotes illegal quotes because the > fucking morons at infotmic forced everyone to sign NDAs before > receiving the BSP (including kernel source code) thus losing their > rights to actually distribute their *own* BSPs under th

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
Russell: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:11:41AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> As such refactoring consolidated larger and larger chunks of kernel >> code, new designs would gravitate towards those consolidated >

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
eam of three or four people with broad coverage of the SoC devices the kernel supports now. As such refactoring consolidated larger and larger chunks of kernel code, new designs would gravitate towards those consolidated implementations because they would be the dominant references. b.g. -- Bill

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
ect I'm not the only one in that situation. The fact that there has been little response to the ARM Summit doesn't mean that nobody cares or that the problems seem to large to solve. It just means that we're going to have to find a different way to get this work done. b.g. -- Bill

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
so, or if > there's any doubt, then perhaps one or both of those should stick around > a bit longer.  But if it's a separate driver, then best to handle it > separately with -dovefb and those others. I think the name "s3c6410" is a reference to an ARM-based SoC. Completely u

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
eo-all? You have my vote in support. I generally uninstall all but fbdev; but the list you suggest is fine by me. Just my $0.02, since I'm not a DD. I am a pretty heavy embedded user of debian, tho. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-re

Re: ARM ports

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Gatliff
Minix guys on their mailing list(s), they might be able to offer some guidance too. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
f having Debian officially support more than one combination? I'm ok with that, actually--- an ecosystem of unofficial "armel" repositories cropping up containing optimized packages for specific configurations. Especially if it's true that Debian won't officially support much more than armeb/armel. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
h name that they haven't seen before because I'm the first guy to try to optimize for a certain machine. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Alignement on ARM

2010-05-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
ter from a location in a byte stream, or a calculated value, then only $deity$ knows what you can say about it other than it's bad, bad code. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: genesi and open rd

2010-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
, A8 or other optimizations for processors that support them? I have a hunch that they offer at best minimal improvements except for specific packages/situations, but I have never taken the initiative to produce a quantitative answer... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff Embedded systems training and consul

Re: doubt

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
rajagopal venugopal wrote: > > hi all, > > > my doubt is whether i can use my own kernel for for my own > arm hardware and make the kernel work with debian GNU/Linux Yes. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists

Re: Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
aybe in a USB stick that you plug into the Thecus? You'll have to modify the parameters RedBoot passes to the kernel, of course... That's the first idea that comes to my mind. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.o

Keyspan-enabled kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Gatliff
out how to describe it. But it's broken. Anyway, ... and I'm almost ashamed to ask since this is a Debian mailing list and all, ... :) does anyone have an n2100 kernel that talks to Keyspan adapters? I could really use one! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UN

Re: Update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian

2009-02-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
time ;) ) Tested on my lenny arm n2100, same (good) results. Speed increase is quite apparent. Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrade arm installation to armel?

2009-02-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
Gordon Farquharson wrote: Hi Bill On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 20:21, Bill Gatliff wrote: If I have a machine like an n2100 that's running lenny arm, is it possible to merely "upgrade" it to armel? You may want to try out the instructions in the section "Migrating

Upgrade arm installation to armel?

2009-02-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but... :) If I have a machine like an n2100 that's running lenny arm, is it possible to merely "upgrade" it to armel? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lis

Re: arm (not armel) d-i buildd is over

2009-02-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
wants to take part in lenny+half. I think it makes sense to support arm for lenny+half in terms of the kernel upgrade, but not for the installer (since we don't want any new installations of arm anyway). That would make it a lot easier for existing deployments, yes. b.g. -- Bill Gatl

Re: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without using Debian installer?

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
. Advice: take good notes, because there really never is such a thing as a "one-off". :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

My co-lo ISP is kicking me out...

2008-12-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
ess. That's no problem for outbound, but it will make it hard for anyone except me to do maintenance. We could possibly address that with openvpn. Any other ideas? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: debian-arm on omap3

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Gatliff
A8) or any other OMAP? I run it more or less continuously on a Beagleboard. Debootstrap of the armel architecture, works for me. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BUG booting 2.6.26-1-iop32x on Thecus N2100

2008-11-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
one sleep whilst waiting for the i2c bus controller to complete the transaction. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I don't have root on hedges.billgatliff.com any more...

2008-10-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> Guys: >> >> >> A catastrophic system failure has nuked the keys that allowed me root access >> on >> hedges.billgatliff.com. I hope someone else has been babysittin

I don't have root on hedges.billgatliff.com any more...

2008-10-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: A catastrophic system failure has nuked the keys that allowed me root access on hedges.billgatliff.com. I hope someone else has been babysitting that machine! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: debian on thecus n4100

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Gatliff
got my n4100 working. Short answer is that the code for the n2100 is 99% of what's needed, it can be made to work, but I haven't had time to finish the n4100 hooks in the mainline kernel. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: hard drive connected to the slug

2008-09-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
l you have all the data safely off of it--- it might not restart. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [E1000-devel] Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
only turn that option on the iop32x > kernel. It's sub-optimal, as some iop32x boards have PCI slots. I agree, it would be an excellent capability. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
t faults if there is no EEPROM. I agree, it would be nice if the driver would just leave things alone if it finds them in an acceptable state... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
7;s implementation of ip) Is there not some way to make the driver Do The Right Thing, i.e. just keep the MAC address if it's already there? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
John Winters wrote: > Bill Gatliff wrote: > [snip] >> The MAC Address will be reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00, which is invalid >> and requires you to set the proper MAC address manually before continuing >> to enable this network device. > [snip] >> To date, the onl

Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
x27;ve already raised the issue there). Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > Bill> ... and this patch is so bad, I hesitate to post it. But > Bill> if I don't, I'll lose it myself! :) > > ;) > &g

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-08 14:30]: >> So now the kernel is very happy talking to the drives, apparently. But it >> doesn't like the e1000's: > > I thought you were aware of this, but in case you're not: Th

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: > I found in the .17 kernel where Thecus commented out the EEPROM checksum test > in > the e1000 driver, I'm going to do the same and see what happens. My first > attempt caused the code to load all ff's for the MAC, which obviously isn't >

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:35:21PM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> I just built mainline 2.6.26 with iop32x_defconfig and arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc >> (GCC) 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-2). Booting on my n4100, I get this: > >> RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyS

Re: "offline" install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
Jonsen, Dan wrote: > I guess that either (1) this is a highly customized Linux distro from WD, or > (2) the ARM architecture doesn't use GRUB, because I can't find a grub.conf > file. Probably both are true. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: "offline" install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
th a lot of smart hardware between the ethernet jack and the disk--- and not just a faster CPU! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "offline" install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
e. On all the targets I work with, I have a console of some type (usually serial) to control the device with. > Also, WD does put the source code for everything on the MyBook WEII on their > website Wow, I had no idea :) Is this thing a better option than an NSLU2, for those with the bu

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-08-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
e colo center that houses it, if necessary. Or, not. Not my call. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
s tied to IRQ 29. Not sure what to do with that information, though... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Contro

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:49:09AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> Anyone know of a recent kernel for the n4100? I was using the 2.6.17.8 >> sources >> from wpkg.org, which are a bit out of date. Is anyone else paying any >> attention >> to

Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-07-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
y attention to this platform? I am, but perhaps not for much longer... :( b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NSLU2 Debian installer for lenny beta 2

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
Does anyone know of an armel installer and/or kernel for an N4100? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Thecus N299

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Gatliff
How does "solder onto the RedBoot UART" count as a "remote exploit"? ;) -Original Message- From: "Michael Goetze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: 4/29/08 3:42 PM Subject: Thecus N299 Hi, aparently Thecus has released a new, incredibly cheap, 2-Bay NAS, the N2

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
Barry Tennison wrote: I wonder whether anyone can help a very puzzled moderately skilled debian and NSLU2 hacker? Apologies for the length of explanation needed. Are you running out of memory on the NSLU2? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [OT] MiniPCI GPS and GSM card for router

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
ing enough MiniPCI Slots. What about some USB-based options? I know they're out there, but I can't point to any part numbers right now... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] MiniPCI GPS and GSM card for router

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
eed so much redundant hardware? With gpsd, you could share the GPS engine's output with all the machines on your LAN. Likewise a GSM modem often looks like a PPP connection, so it could be shared as well... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: LCD Dot-Matrix Display "Bona MG24064-01"

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I hope, next week I will get my 19" 2U case and now I like to know, if > the Dot-Matrix display "Bona MG24064-01" is supported under arm/i386 and > could replace a monitor for the console... Anything's possible! :) b.g

Re: Hedges will need some downtime next week

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: Guys: I no longer have root on hedges, due to a power supply failure on my workstation, and a non-backed-up SSH key. :( This has been corrected. As soon as I know what the install date/time is, I'll add a crontab entry to do a shutdown with several hours

Hedges will need some downtime next week

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Gatliff
H key. :( I'll post the date/time here when I know it. Could someone set up a crontab to shut the machine down, with warning, at that time? Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: LUKS overhead (was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)

2008-04-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
ignificant attention the last few releases? It looks like there's more than an accelerator API there lately, I'm trying to get a sense of the motivations for its use--- as well as how to use it, of course. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Video application

2008-03-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
stems intended for scientific work, though. Maybe beyond what you're after, but even a cinematic-quality experience is probably beyond the NSLU2. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trendnet TV-IP312W/Zonet ZVC7630W/Fitivision CS-1013

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Gatliff
GoatZilla wrote: Has anyone looked at getting Debian on one of these things? I haven't, but I think you should. ;) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
faster chips. I don't like to do work twice! Just my (non-DD) opinion... BTW, I've got my n4100 running armel now, and even with 512MB the performance is ... underwhelming. And by ARM standards, this machine is big-iron! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: The gcc came from crosstool-ng-1.0. Despite my repeated requests, crosstool-ng-1.0 insisted on building gcc-4.2.2. So I built my own gcc-4.1.1, used that to build the _same_ kernel, and the box is now solid. Go figure. If I had more hours in the day, I'd invest

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
5 seconds I sometimes see OOPSes in udp_v4_get_port as well. Any ideas? This is the wpkg linux-2.6.17.8 kernel, rebuilt to add ramdisks, md raid 5 and initrd. The gcc came from crosstool-ng-1.0. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok. I'm very, very close. Details to follow shortly. :) :) Still very close, but not there just yet. :( To recap. I rebuilt the wpkg kernel, to turn on things like NFS and ramdisks. I used a gcc-4.2.1 kernel constructed with crosstool-ng. I used the ads i

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
It doesn't appear to work with an EABI-only kernel. Thoughts? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian on N4100

2008-02-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
n4100 I'm in the process of building my own kernel, one with NFS support so that I can use debootstrap. Suggestions? I just don't want to reinvent the wheel... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: leisner: rm assertion

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
ybody else seeing this?) Yep, I've seen it: http://bugs.debian.org/462677 I'll see about the workaround. I don't know the root cause. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost needs help on ARM

2008-02-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
local root exploit kernel problem. Anyone? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
2100 might be unreliable? Hedges is an N2100 that I outfitted with 512MB SDRAM. Anyone know how it's holding up? Top says it's not idling, but loaded 1.15 on average with 32MB free. Dmesg and the logs don't show anything ugly. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
that _arm_ is lacking high-grunt hardware, or _arme[lb]_? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... Upgraded the chroots last night - or tried to. It has exceptionally slow so I had to leave it ru

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
cause they're stressing _me_ even harder! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
least. :) Sorry about repetitions, Bill, thought I'd put this on list too. You did. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:00:02PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlo

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

Re: Thecus 2100, extremly slow r8169

2007-12-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
Can you switch to blowfish for scp, the way you can for ssh? That's a pretty light algorithm, but maybe not such that you'd notice any significant improvement. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please reschedule regina-normal/arm build

2007-12-17 Thread Bill Gatliff
ing? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
ill work for the n4100? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: objc on armel - why not?

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
... When I get the Thecus box up I'll try compiling it with armel and see what happens... unless someone knows better... M Leisner is back up, and I installed an armel chroot on it. You're welcome to use it if that helps. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: Debian armel status update

2007-11-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VGA cards on USB or such?

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
of system-on-module boards that use these chips. They're pretty low-power. HTH, b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: Re: Java interpreter on ARM GNU/Linux

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Naulls wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the n2100 support both OABI and EABI? If so, maybe someone should put chroots for both on hedges? Any ARM processor made in the last 10 years or so will do EABI.

Re: Fw: Re: Java interpreter on ARM GNU/Linux

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
eal fix for this is EABI. Does the n2100 support both OABI and EABI? If so, maybe someone should put chroots for both on hedges? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: Re: debian java libffi patches

2007-07-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
ion sequence which has a modest performance overhead but gives you the full 32-bit address space. Which suggests that the text size when built with -Os would be about halved -- 24 megabytes. ... which would have performance implications (probably not serious ones), and would probably

Re: What demotivates debian-arm? [Was: Re: Bug#425011: gcc-4.1: FTBFS on m68k and arm, multiple definitions of ffi_prep_closure]

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
t here and there. And kudos to them! But I wasn't talking about "answering a question here and there". I _would_ object against the (purely hypothetical) case where Bill Gatliff would get a PO to implement a feature X and then sends Lennert email saying "What is feature X? How

What demotivates debian-arm? [Was: Re: Bug#425011: gcc-4.1: FTBFS on m68k and arm, multiple definitions of ffi_prep_closure]

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
. Some of us would also love to come to the party, but can't for all kinds of reasons. Now everyone knows mine, and if they want to see me there more often then they know how to help. It pains me a bit to admit my shortcomings, but I won't apologize for being honest and realistic about mys

Re: Bug#425011: gcc-4.1: FTBFS on m68k and arm, multiple definitions of ffi_prep_closure

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
irection, and we see how that turned out. :( Frankly, I think Debian is as awesome as it is _precisely because_ of its devotion to non-x86 targets (among other reasons, of course). I don't want to see that go away. Let's pool our resources, face reality, and find a way to give Debian fo

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