Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I wonder what the feasibility is of instead of putting a linux kernel in > the kernel portion of the flash image and essentially what's an initrd > in the filesystem portion (because remember, all the / in the flash > image does for me is mount USB storage on /), putt

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Baker
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Steven Barth wrote: > Why emulate a 1 dimensional limited configuration system for all platforms, > with a maximum capacity of 32kiB just because ONLY some old broadcom based > routers use it? Right. NVRAM was usually a 32k block of consecutive name=val

[OpenWrt-Devel] xt_TARPIT patch needs update for 2.6.28.x kernel

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4432 ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel

[OpenWrt-Devel] chaostables need update for 2.6.28.x

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
chaostables are obsolete for some time now as they have been merged into xtables-addons https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4431 ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel

[OpenWrt-Devel] yaffs 2.6.28.1 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=484856 Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis --- linux-2.6.28.1/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_fs.c.orig2009-01-22 23:47:36.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.28.1/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_fs.c 2009-01-22 23:48:20.0 +0200 @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ pgoff_t index = p

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I disagree because that would create an unwanted relationship between > ipkg and sysupgrade and also will result in having old configuration > files if new versions of packages also have updated > configuration files. Why would you not want such a relationship. [io]pkg's conffiles are meant to

[OpenWrt-Devel] linux-2.6.23 linux/time.h gcc-4.3 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://acassis.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/erro-compilando-kernel-2622-no-opensuse11-gcc-431 Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis --- linux-2.6.23.17/include/linux/time.h.orig 2009-01-22 23:18:04.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23.17/include/linux/time.h2009-01-22 23:25:17.0 +02

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Barth
> > thats why UCI was invented > > I would have suggested some kind of "on disk" nvram emulation for such > non-nvram capable systems so that the nvram paradigm remains the same > for nvram capable systems and is emulated for others that have, say, > persistent disk. Why emulate a 1 dimensional lim

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:39 +0100, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > > only very few computersystems have NVRAM s/computersystems/[wireless] routers/ ? OpenWRT is targeted at [wireless] routers. > thats why UCI was invented I would have suggested some kind of "on disk" nvram emulation for such non-nvra

[OpenWrt-Devel] update shorwall shell & common to 4.2.4

2009-01-22 Thread Puchu
greets puchu Index: feeds/packages/net/shorewall-common/Makefile === --- feeds/packages/net/shorewall-common/Makefile(Revision 14144) +++ feeds/packages/net/shorewa

[OpenWrt-Devel] htpdate-1.0.4 uClibc-0.9.30 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://www.mail-archive.com/ucl...@uclibc.org/msg02985.html Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis --- htpdate-1.0.4/htpdate.c.orig2009-01-22 11:20:54.0 +0200 +++ htpdate-1.0.4/htpdate.c 2009-01-22 11:18:55.0 +0200 @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ /* Read current kernel

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Bastian Bittorf
* Brian J. Murrell [21.01.2009 16:15]: > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:41 +0100, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > > > > KISS! > > Heh. KISS would have been leaving the config in the NVRAM as it was > intended. :-) only very few computersystems have NVRAM - thats why UCI was invented > Maybe the list of c