On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:13 AM, STR . <stry...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> This is the 2nd RFC to port the PC Engines APU2 board to LEDE. The last > RFC can be found at > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-October/003326.html > Nice! > >> Default Packages: >> - lm-sensors - Temp Monitoring > Does lm-sensors report all 4 core temps or just 1? > >> Changes added from the last RFC: >> - Removed hwclock package as it's included in busybox > Can we add '--inode support' to busybox's df? Currently there's no way to > tell inode usage. > The current busybox binary feels so gimped, I built it with every feature > enabled and it worked with no issues. > >> Changes rejected from the last RFC: >> - add usb-serial-kmod - The goal of this port is to add support for all > sold hardware via PC Engines. As they do not sell 2G/3G/4G PCI-E modems, > this will not be included. > I'm disappointed at this decision. The board has 3 mini-PCI, 1 for mSATA > only. Who buys this SoC to not populate the slots? > I understand most owrt/lede targets have huge restrictions on RAM and disk > space but the APU2 isn't one of them and IMHO shouldn't be painted with the > same brush. > This cannot attract new APU2 owners to LEDE outside of those who can rebuild > the features they need. > > This minimal approach suits low powered arm/mipsel SoCs but seems out of > place on a fairly beefy machine like an APU which supports virtualization.
I share the desire to make the default apu2 build as fully featured as possible, requiring minimal to no additional setup. Flash space is not a problem these days. > Your suggestions will gimp the OS on the APU to worse than that of a > https://omnia.turris.cz/en and this is probably why I think they're going > with a debian derivative instead of owrt. > I haven't kept up with the Turris project since I got an apu2 instead. So far as I know turris is still openwrt/lede derived. Haven't got mine yet. > > >> If there are any comments, suggestions, or visible improvements please let > me know/reply with some patches. > I am currently travelling and will test the lm-sensors issue as described in > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-October/003374.html when > I'm back. > > _______________________________________________ > Lede-dev mailing list > Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
