2010/4/14 Gregers Petersen <[email protected]> > > Hi > > qecko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had some discussions with Vision Systems a while ago - they asked for > help with porting - I'm really happy that you have managed to finish the > port. > Are you directly working with Vision Systems?
Thank you. Yes, i'm directly working with Vision Systems. I'm studying IT and the OpenWrt project was part of my internship at VS. > > > I successfully finished porting OpenWrt to a new hardware platform > > called OpenRISC/Alekto, based on an ARM9. > > The specification can be found at the vendors website: > > http://www.visionsystems.de/produkte/6802.html > > I started off with the Kamikaze trunk (r19854) and did the kernel > > patches for version 2.6.32. > > > > The OpenRISC/Alekto comes with two different WLAN cards: > > The first one is RaLink 2561 which is supported via rt61-pci. This card > > needs an additional binary driver from the vendor placed in > > "/lib/firmware". This card works in general, but sometimes the reload of > > the binary driver fails (for example when restarting networking). > > The second one is an Atheros WLM54G which works fine with ath5k. > > > > Alekto has an own BIOS which can boot from different devices like the > > internal microSD card or an compact flash card. Therefore I copy the > > linux kernel image directly into the root-filesystem ("/boot/zImage") - > > like common for x86. The BIOS passes the kernel parameters specified in > > "/boot/kparam" to the kernel. Right now the parameters are > > "init=/etc/preinit root=/dev/sda1" because I'm using the internal > > microSD card. > > Would be really good if the system would run from onboard flash? Of course it's possible to run OpenWRT from onboard flash but there are several reasons why i'm not doing so. First, you don't have to care about the size of the image - onboard flash is only about 4MB, my currently used microSD card is 2GB. Second, flashing the image on an SD card is very easy and can be done from any PC having a card reader (If you don't want to use microSD the BIOS can also boot from CF, USB or via network). And last but not least: you don't touch the onboard flash and therefore it's less risky and you don't play with losing the product's warranty. > > > > > The device runs as router at my home since one week - without any problems. > > I did not tested the Backfire release yet, hopefully I'll do next week. > > The difference between trunk and backfire is not big atm. Backfire compiled well, but not tested further yet. > > > > > Please review my patches. It would be great if the patches could be > > applied to the SVN. > > > > Will be looked at :-) > > > Thanks - qecko > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > -- > Gregers Petersen > Relationship manager, layer 8 and anthropology > glp on irc > > > _______ ________ __ > | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ > | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| > |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| > |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M > KAMIKAZE (bleeding edge) ----------------------- > * 10 oz Vodka Shake well with ice and strain > * 10 oz Triple sec mixture into 10 shot glasses. > * 10 oz lime juice Salute! > --------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
