Re: [PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support

2014-02-21 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-21 13:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 21 February 2014 01:47:31 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2014 14:21:10 Ian Campbell wrote: > For all I know, the only interesting ixp4xx platforms are the consumer > produ

Re: qcontrol/ttyS1 on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-18 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-16 20:31, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 20:12 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: So how does the stock firmware disable the watchdog during the boot? Via the kernel driver perhaps? Maybe via a custom ioctl. You'll have to use the (kernel) source I'm afraid. O

Re: qcontrol/ttyS1 on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-16 Thread Gordan Bobic
So how does the stock firmware disable the watchdog during the boot? Ian Campbell wrote: >On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 23:46 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> I'm trying to get qcontrol / ttyS1 to work with the default QNAP kernel >> and I just cannot seem to get it to do anything.

Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size

2014-02-15 Thread Gordan Bobic
I was rather hoping for a response more along the lines of "here's a download link for the specific .deb you need for the TS-421". Tim Fletcher wrote: >On 15/02/14 00:01, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> On 02/13/2014 07:26 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>>> On 13 Feb

Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size

2014-02-14 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 02/13/2014 07:26 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Gordan Bobic wrote: It looks like there is a bug in kernel 3.2.0-4-kirkwood WRT how it handles the memory on QNAP TS-421. The stock kernel shows the full 1GB of RAM, the Debian kernel shows 880488KB. Also in dmesg

qcontrol/ttyS1 on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-14 Thread Gordan Bobic
I'm trying to get qcontrol / ttyS1 to work with the default QNAP kernel and I just cannot seem to get it to do anything. # echo -n g > /dev/ttyS1 -bash: echo: write error: Input/output error # qcontrol --direct watchdog off Failed to set attributes for /dev/ttyS1: Input/output error Normally I

Re: Porting debian on Nvidia tegra 2

2014-02-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-13 11:08, Divya Subramanian wrote: but ubunu touch has been ported to Nexus device. How was that possible?  Regards, Divya Subramanian On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Lack of a keyboard and an accurate pointing device for a start. On 2014-02-13 10:00,

QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size

2014-02-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
It looks like there is a bug in kernel 3.2.0-4-kirkwood WRT how it handles the memory on QNAP TS-421. The stock kernel shows the full 1GB of RAM, the Debian kernel shows 880488KB. Also in dmesg: Truncating RAM at 2000-3fff to -367f (vmalloc region overlap). ... Memory: 872MB = 872M

Re: Porting debian on Nvidia tegra 2

2014-02-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
Lack of a keyboard and an accurate pointing device for a start. On 2014-02-13 10:00, Divya Subramanian wrote: How is it suboptimal? I could not understand how  UI constraints come into scene .  Regards, Divya Subramanian On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: You should be

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
Ah, param.conf. Can't believe I missed something that obvious. Thanks. Ian Campbell wrote: >On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 00:36 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> OK, I have Debian running on my QNAP now. :) >> >> I'm having a read through the initramfs but I can't see

Re: Porting debian on Nvidia tegra 2

2014-02-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
You should be able to get this working pretty trivially in a chroot. Google for running Linux in a chroot on Android. Running it as the primary OS on tablets tends to be suboptimal due to the UI constraints of tablets. Divya Subramanian wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to port debian on Samsung gal

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
OK, I have Debian running on my QNAP now. :) I'm having a read through the initramfs but I can't seem to figure out where the rootfs override occurs. I can see all the standard stuff that is figuring out which FS it is by LABEL= and UUID= specifications on the kernel command line, but that is

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 02/12/2014 08:22 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 12/02/14 11:14, Gordan Bobic wrote: Hi, I am trying to get an alternative distro running on my QNAP TS-421, and the only Linux distro I can find that has any support for it is Debian ARM, so here I am. I have managed to defeat most of the

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-12 14:07, Björn Wetterbom wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: TS-421 doesn't save it's u-boot variables on NAND. As far as I can tell, they are always saved on a virtual MTD partition (mtdblock4) in RAM, and overwritten on every boot with the pr

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-12 13:03, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 12:26 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: As far as I can tell, the standard Debian install for the QNAP NAS-es also runs from on-board NAND and thus runs with the default u-boot parameters. This is not the case, Debian will be installed

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 2014-02-12 11:57, iacchi wrote: Gordan Bobic ha scritto: Is there a better way? Is there an alternative u-boot available for use on these, one that can handle persistent variable saving? Hi, have you tried to read these pages? http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/ Yes I did, that is

U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

2014-02-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
Hi, I am trying to get an alternative distro running on my QNAP TS-421, and the only Linux distro I can find that has any support for it is Debian ARM, so here I am. I have managed to defeat most of the problems with it this far, but u-boot continues to be a problem. TS-421 doesn't save it's u-

Re: [Arm-netbook] 9nov11: progress on allwinner A10

2011-11-11 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 11/11/2011 12:09 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 11/11/2011 10:50 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: oh my goodness me. our little factory said

Re: [Arm-netbook] 9nov11: progress on allwinner A10

2011-11-11 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 11/11/2011 10:50 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: oh my goodness me. our little factory said they couldn't do 32gb NAND for $100, but would 16gb be ok? hum i've asked them to do a quick breakdown so we can work out options :) Is that for the whole board or just for the NAND? A 32GB

Re: [Arm-netbook] 9nov11: progress on allwinner A10

2011-11-09 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 09/11/2011 21:32, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: they were planning to make room for up to 4gb NAND flash *but*... something just occurred to me / my associates: thailand's under water. the implications of that are that the factories which used to make low-end IDE drives and pretty much

Re: [Arm-netbook] 9nov11: progress on allwinner A10

2011-11-09 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 09/11/2011 20:44, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: ok, just a quick thoughts / status update. we've had it confirmed that the CPU is external 2gb addressing but *internal* limited to 1gb (!) little factory is still going over the BOM, but want to put in 512mb DDR RAM ICs because they're c

Re: [Arm-netbook] "Great China's Firewall" blocking access to A10 SoC

2011-11-06 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 11/05/2011 09:53 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: the wonderful "great firewall of china" has come ker-chungg down and chopped off access to the supplier of the A10 SoC :) luckily there are such things as "phones", y'know? all quite amusing. btw thank you to everyone who has agreed t

Re: ARM 3D support was Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:00:43 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [ok i'm going to do another cross-post in a bit which will give some background and also perhaps some other topics for discussion, but i wanted to cover this first. apologies for people for whom this is just noise] On Tue,

Re: ARM 3D support was Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-23 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/23/2011 07:01 PM, omall...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Gordan Bobic : Unfortunately there is no way I could make it, but on the subject of 3D support on ARM, Luke recently mentioned something that initially seemed outlandish but upon closer examination doesn't seem like a bad idea. As w

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

2011-08-23 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:11:34 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:15:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, Following on from the founding of the cross-distro ARM mailing list, I'd like to propose an ARM summit at this year's Linux Plumbers conference [1]. I'm hoping fo

Re: [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

2011-08-18 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:21:43 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: in the first place), why has the MX53QSB not been chosen as the board for the freedombox foundation to honour its obligations to its kickstarter sponsors? Another

Re: [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

2011-08-18 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:33:58 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Tim Small wrote: On 17/08/11 15:00, Gordan Bobic wrote: Marvell is pretty good. Whether that is through Marvell's contribution or not I don't know, but in terms of what th

Re: [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

2011-08-17 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:39:17 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [ um... freedombox people... tell me... why was the shitty little NDA-loving armv5 marvell sheeva guwwu pwug chosen over the freedom-respecting really rather dishy little IMX53QSB? i realise it's good to break marvell of

Re: [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

2011-08-13 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/13/2011 02:46 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: This sort of question should always be considered in the context of the lead time, i.e. "in 9 months time when TI and NVidia and Freescale (etc.) have announced the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:46:11 +0200, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote: Gordan Bobic writes: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:42:33 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 1:35 PM, David Given wrote: Are there any decent-looking Cortex A9 boards out or upcoming which support

Re: [Arm-netbook] Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:39:19 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:  question (for everyone): if there existed a board which used a single-core 800mhz Cortex A9, maximum hard limit of 512mb RAM, but also had SATA-II and 10/100

Re: [Arm-netbook] Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

2011-08-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:42:33 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 1:35 PM, David Given wrote: Are there any decent-looking Cortex A9 boards out or upcoming which support ethernet and SATA? So far I've found: PandaBoard --- $180, ethernet, no SATA. Samsung Origen

Re: [Arm-netbook] (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:13:35 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org that provides the package