On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
This is clearly an improvement. But it is missing this part of the
original patch:
Oops, well spotted. I've updated the patch in the git tree; thanks.
(that's what comes of applying patches by hand -- I _knew_ I had to do
that hunk, but
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:03 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +0100
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
This is clearly an improvement. But it is missing this part of the
original patch:
Oops, well spotted
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:07 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:16:22AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:13 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6.git
Do you have plans to get that in -mm, or linux-next?
Should
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:55 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Can we please get the ifdefs tided up before this goes in.
For the moment this has a NAK from the tty maintainer but if the
ifdefs
turned went into headers where they belong and the code looked like
say
tc =
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 15:07 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
If I merge this incremental patch, does that address your objections?
Yes
http://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=a29ccf6f8
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On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:25 +0100, Will Newton wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Being unable to do this just because we now also would need a native
Perl is indeed a PITA...
You can run the Perl bit with ssh remote perl,
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:28 -0400, Glenn Henshaw wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Marcus Tangermann wrote:
we currently try to boot a 2.6.21 kernel
time to upgrade
Wrong answer!!!
Many embedded devices can't upgrade kernels easily because of
customer requirements and
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:56 +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
I saw that. My point is pure text processing. But as it seems doing
`make` is a lot more fun than to do `sh` `sed`.
The problem is that it _isn't_ pure text processing. There's more to
building with --combine than that, and we really do
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:49 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
But here's the thing: do you really want every package have code
calling every different variation on a system call, at run time, until
it finds one that works?
No. That functionality lives in libc, if you want it at all.
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On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:52 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
E.g. Calls to pread should _not_ be implemented as lseek+read+lseek on
old kernels which don't have pread. That leads to race conditions and
corruption in some applications. (I think this has really occurred,
but I'm unable to find it
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:47 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
This may sound like a stupid question, but why are you compiling the
modules statically?
I wondered that.
One potential reason to avoid modules is that they waste RAM -- you have
to allocate an integral number of pages for each one,
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:20 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
So the only real reason I can see to avoid modules in the _current_
kernel would be the wasted RAM, which should be something we can
address. Tim, have I missed something?
... like the time it takes to actually load modules and do
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:57 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:20:22AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:47 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
This may sound like a stupid question, but why are you
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:33 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
But even after all optimizations CONFIG_MODULES=y will still cause a
significant additional cost [1] when thinking in the dimensions of
Tim's the 30 or so Linux-tiny patches that I use get me about 110k of
reductions. For me, this is
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 02:40 -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:27:03 +0200
Changes since previous post:
* Add Matt Mackall's Signed-off-by on all patches
* Make bonding and bridging select ethtool in the ethtool-related
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 02:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:51:52 +0100
But there are a lot of people who really don't need these features
and really want the option of leaving them out.
I'll say it one last time.
If you
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 03:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:
I explained why I didn't want to apply the IGMP one too.
Andrew didn't like my objections, but that doesn't mean I
need to defend my position further.
You said that it was part of the core BSD socket API and Like TCP and
UDP, multicast
at it, and reported quite a useful win when
he used it to combine arch/$ARCH/mm and mm/, and arch/$ARCH/kernel and
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On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:46 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
Hi,
I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned
on.
Well, I do. To be exact, I've developed parts of it. But it's numbers
are only into the thousands,
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:27 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
This patchs adds the CONFIG_IGMP option which allows to remove support
for the Internet Group Management Protocol, used in
multicast. Multicast is not necessarly used by applications,
particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's
probably just me,
No, it's not just you. NTP is useful
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:29 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
The above paragraph is not part of the patch description and should
not end up in the git history, so it should be below the first `---'
and above the diffstat, i.e.
Since it reports successful testing, I figured I might as well keep
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:48 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
Le Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:41:55 +0100,
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
The config option probably lives in net/Kconfig, not init/Kconfig.
Yes, it could. But AFAIK, until now, all CONFIG_EMBEDDED-related
options have been
data for a file system in another file system
(/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth
considering to export this information via the same mount point.
I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'.
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On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:51 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
Can you run mkfs.axfs on the same trivial directory on both ia32 and
PPC64 and then get me the resulting images?
git.infradead.org is a big-endian box, and I know you have an account
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compression
interface sucks for what you're trying to achieve :)
The main thing that's missing for JFFS2 is
Compress as much of this as you can into X bytes
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that something may have been lost. For bonus points, we could even
make that 'dummy' tty driver buffer a limited amount of userspace
output, maybe.
If userspace cares, let _it_ wait, by using an ioctl to see what tty
device it's _really_ attached to.
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On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:29 -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:11:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
...
The kernel output is going to be spewed when a console registers with
CON_PRINTBUFFER anyway, and if we printk a warning about userspace
console output being lost
. PRAMFS root option is not enabled
if it's already enabled the NFS one. What do you think?
Why use a major number at all? See how we handle mtd and ubi devices in
prepare_namespace() -- can't you do something similar?
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On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:04 +0300, stas wrote:
It seems to me that this example code is not free of errors. After the
third : we should list registers ebx and ecx to let gcc know
they could change in asm section.
__asm__ volatile (
movl (%0), %%ebx\n\t
movl (%1), %%ecx\n\t
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:46 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
It applies to anything in the embedded Linux ecosystem. This
would very much include open source boot loaders like U-Boot.
And coreboot.
The world needs more coreboot.
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Aras Vaichas wrote:
2009/12/3 Tim Bird tim.b...@am.sony.com
Mike Frysinger wrote:
i know your e-mail intro states embedded Linux as does the wiki, but
i'm gonna take a stab anyways. does this apply to Linux only and not
open source boot loaders (like U-Boot) ?
It
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:42 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
Is it heretical to suggest a BSD licence for that too, to encourage
adoption into other bootloaders? Or at least LGPL or the GPL with
linking exception licence that libstdc++/eCos/JFFS2 have.
Are you asking for a relicense of the
an MTD
device using phram or something else, then point mtdoops at it.
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
Hi
commit 432dc821c90114f9b0e00f6752a700e937516ade
Author: H Hartley Sweeten hartl...@visionengravers.com
Date: Thu Aug 19 18:18:21 2010 -0700
mtd: cleanup Kconfig dependencies
breaks machines by undefining macros like
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 11:03 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
On 05/05/2011 11:00 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
On 05/05/2011 07:52 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
nearly no-one use it, only amop1, pxa and sa1100 implement it
Sony uses this - a lot. Principally we're using this on a NEC
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices,
and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices.
In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices.
You could almost be describing link-local IPv6. Each
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 15:26 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
If we're going to do this at build time, I would suggest using a
collisionless hash instead. The lookup time for those are O(1), but
they definitely need to be done at build time.
Is the lookup time really an issue?
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