Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] bcm47xx ssb watchdog driver

2009-01-21 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi Aleksandar, Le Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:02:19 Aleksandar Radovanovic, vous avez écrit : Hi, I'm trying to write a driver for my wl-500gP to export the watchdog timer on BCM4712 to userspace, via /dev/watchdog. Since I have no access to chip datasheets, I've been digging through SSB

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

2009-01-21 Thread Bastian Bittorf
* Brian J. Murrell br...@interlinx.bc.ca [21.01.2009 15:30]: restore process? This is _exactly_ the kind of rigmarole I am talking KISS! Just write an script which tar-gzip-uuencode's your prefered config-files into nvram-partition (if your hardware has one), which is (if existent) restored

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

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:51 +0100, Markus Wigge wrote: Hello, Hi, Have you ever tried sysupgrade? No. A nice little tool to save your config, And how does it know where all of the various config is? Are you sure it's not missing any, now or in the future? flash a new image and restore

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

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:39 +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: It has a builtin list of important configs like /etc/opkg.conf, /etc/dropbear etc. Right. But that's a list that will continually need updating as new packages are brought in. As I said in a previous message, having package

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] bcm47xx ssb watchdog driver

2009-01-21 Thread Aleksandar Radovanovic
Hi Florian, Florian Fainelli wrote: Hi Aleksandar, Le Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:02:19 Aleksandar Radovanovic, vous avez écrit : Hi, I'm trying to write a driver for my wl-500gP to export the watchdog timer on BCM4712 to userspace, via /dev/watchdog. Since I have no access to

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWrt-Tickets] [OpenWrt] #3479: Support for gcc4.3

2009-01-21 Thread Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini
thanks ciao luigi On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:59:35 OpenWrt wrote: #3479: Support for gcc4.3 --+ - Reporter: luigi.mantell...@idf-hit.com |Owner: nico Type: enhancement |

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWrt-Tickets] [OpenWrt] #4271: please update uclibc to 0.9.30

2009-01-21 Thread Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini
thanks luigi On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:46:43 OpenWrt wrote: #4271: please update uclibc to 0.9.30 -+- - Reporter: anonymous|Owner: nico Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority:

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

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:01 +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: Yes. For squashfs + jffs based systems you could also investigate the contents of /jffs, which contains only files that where modified compared to the initial rom file system. Yes, that is an interesting approach for such systems.

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

2009-01-21 Thread Harald Schiöberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [rfc] Small initramfs environment

2009-01-21 Thread Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini
any comments? thanks luigi On Tuesday 20 January 2009 23:02:41 Luigi Mantellini wrote: Hi developers, Hi users, I made the homework. The idea is to permit to have custom initramfs root and (at same time) the normal rootfs (jffs2, squash, ...) to give better flexibility at boot time for

[OpenWrt-Devel] update to vnstat install script, htop version update, irssi update

2009-01-21 Thread Puchu
Hi, i updated this programs vnstat htop irssi - uses some patches from svn any suggestions? if not, please apply. greets puchu Index: vnstat/Makefile === --- vnstat/Makefile (Revision 14131) +++ vnstat/Makefile (Arbeitskopie) @@

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

2009-01-21 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Is it, or will it some day get Luci driven to operate as seamlessly as | native firmware upgrades? LuCI's firmware upgrade pages already use sysupgrade (or better it's shell libraries) internally. ~ JoW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] update to vnstat install script, htop version update, irssi update

2009-01-21 Thread Puchu
hi added new irrsi layout to select between irssi with openssl and without openssl greets Am Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009 17:59:10 schrieb Puchu: Hi, i updated this programs vnstat htop irssi - uses some patches from svn any suggestions? if not, please apply. greets puchu Index:

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

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Barth
Is it, or will it some day get Luci driven to operate as seamlessly as native firmware upgrades? Is this seamless enough: http://dev.luci.freifunk-halle.net/sysupgrade.png ;-) Greetings Cyrus ___ openwrt-devel mailing list

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

2009-01-21 Thread Roberto Riggio
- Jo-Philipp Wich x...@subsignal.org ha scritto: It builds a temporary ramdisk, chroots to it, flashes the image from there and reinitalizes the jffs2 partition from within the yet running system. Is it possible to use sysupgrade on a ext2 partition? Or does it have to be a jff2

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

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:57 +0100, Roberto Riggio wrote: Is it possible to use sysupgrade on a ext2 partition? Or does it have to be a jff2 partition? I think a previous posting in this thread said that ext2 didn't work. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

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

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:30 +0100, Steven Barth wrote: Is it, or will it some day get Luci driven to operate as seamlessly as native firmware upgrades? Is this seamless enough: http://dev.luci.freifunk-halle.net/sysupgrade.png Sure, as long as when it's done that, it comes back on the new

[OpenWrt-Devel] mounting / from USB automatically yet?

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I've just updated my trunk tree to the latest and I'm looking at the patches that I'm carrying in my tree wondering what's still relevant and what's not. One of the bigger ones is a patch to mount a USB device on / in mount_root. Is this still needed or has some official support for this