On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:07:40PM +0100, 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 > > > products listed on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/, the other ones you support > > > are development boards that tend to exist only in very small quantities. > > > > > > The main limitation would be the amount of installed RAM, which is > > > either 32MB or 64MB depending on the machine for these. Running a > > > modern Debian with these constraints is probably possible but > > > doesn't sound like fun. > > > > Our most pressing constraint has actually been the size of the kernel > > partition in flash, which is only ~1.4 MB on some of the iop32x and > > ixp4xx machines (and ~1.5 MB on one of the orion5x machines). We've > > modularised as much as possible and turned off some of the features that > > are otherwise standard across all Debian architectures. > > Makes sense. I'm impressed you actually manage to get a modern kernel > in 1.5MB and have it boot up a (mostly) full distro. I think we have > in the past dropped a subarchitecture from the kernel when it turned > out its defconfig could no longer fit within the 2MB of flash it > has. > > > But I got fed up with trying to make it fit, and no-one else stepped up > > to maintain the reduced configurations, so the last time iop32x went > > over the limit I removed it. As Ian hinted, ixp4xx might follow. > > Ok. As I mentioned, I believe OpenWRT is really the playground for > the remaining ixp4xx users that are doing new installs.
fwiw, I have two boards for this arch. NSLU2 and a Gateworks board. Both are ixp425 and both are gathering dust in a box. I probably don't have time to do anything with them. So, if Kevin or Olof wants to add them to the boot farm, or someone actually wants to boot test them, I would be willing to send them where ever. iirc, there are hacks to upgrade at least the RAM on the NSLU2. I'm pretty sure I maxed out the flash and the RAM on the Gateworks board when I ordered it. Also, the Gateworks board has 4 mini-pci slots (not pcie). Could be interesting. hth, Jason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
