Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer.so??

2013-10-01 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
> Greetings: I have armedslack13.27 running except for viewing YouTube > video.. (RasPi-B) > > Adobe site says no such plugin available.. Any suggestions or comments? > TIA.. (I tried a few but they must be for X86, not ARM??) Hi, this has been discussed here: http://lists.armedslack.org/piperm

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Raspberry Pi

2013-05-02 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
sktop, isn't it? -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] A cheap Pogoplug on sale for 10 €

2012-12-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
27;ve received mine. Sadly I got a POGO-E02 with Marvell chipset (kirkwood). This actually is the same hardware like my Seagate Dockstar (or other Sheevaplugs), so I'd sell mine for 16 € + plus shipping from Germany. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org _

[ARMedslack] A cheap Pogoplug on sale for 10 €

2012-12-08 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, maybe interesting for some people here: A Pogoplug is on sale for 10 € plus shipping: http://estore.rhiem.com/bestellen/warenkorb.asp?con=DE&artikelnr=POGO-P24&sid=2&wid=1&mid=32&store=&menge=0 It probably has a Oxnas 7820 chipset and it can run Linux from a disk connected to S-ATA: http://a

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-12-07 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
;ve built my own kernel now (same version like 14.0 and based on your config). I've just added the needed drivers to the kernel (USB, SCSI disk, some filesystems) so I can boot without initrd and everything is ok now. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
(or not mounted). Trouble ahead. > > You can try to fix it. Type 'exit' when things are done. > > > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Same configuration with kernel and uinitrd from 13.37 (Linux 2.6.38.4-kirkwood) bo

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
mHuz > You have a root shell there - can you share what you have done to > investigate it? It may be obvious what's happened. Tried to mount the rootfs, which works. Tried to run ./init again, which then fails at switch_root But after "exit" it starts booting: http://pas

[ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I've reactivated my Seagate Dockstar, that was lying around in my cupboard for some month. I did the following: 1. reinstalled Doozans U-Boot to have a clean system to start 2. prepared an USB stick with sda1=boot, sda2=swap, sda3=rootfs 3. untared the Slackware ARM minirootfs to the correct

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
I've never used QEMU and I think nowadays ARM hardware is really cheap to get. So even for a first try beginners may rather buy an ARM board than using QEMU. 2012/8/31 Stuart Winter : > > Hi > > I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. > I only added these years ago because m

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ind of funny nowadays. I guess the webmaster does not want to have many users? :-D The mobile phone/tablet market is growing every day and neither iOS nor recent Android is meant to run flash. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
n ARMed Slack and run it in X. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
2012/7/4 Ottavio Caruso : > On 2 July 2012 01:55, stanley garvey wrote: > >>> It is a can of worms. It is closed source and lets hope it's finished. >>> Adobe don't fully support it and have publicly said so. > > Yes, Adobe has officially end-of-lifed Flash Player on Android: > > http://blogs.adob

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-06-27 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:10:00 + schrieb Ottavio Caruso : > On 27 June 2012 18:56, Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote: > > Various Android Browser are shipping a Flash plugin. AFAIK the > > latest Firefox for Android (version 14.x) has one, too. Maybe you > > can find something i

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-06-27 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
d but you would probably find either pirated of obsolete > versions. Various Android Browser are shipping a Flash plugin. AFAIK the latest Firefox for Android (version 14.x) has one, too. Maybe you can find something in their source/app/ML/chat... :-/ -- Thorsten Mühl

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM current is being re-based to armv5te

2011-12-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ly this was just meant as example, but I'm quite sure changing from armv4te to armv5te will be far is far away from changing from march=i486 to march=k8 on my x86 system. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM current is being re-based to armv5te

2011-12-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
nd > the arm5te compiled version with no differences. What kind of tests? On x86 platform I could measure slight differences on audio/video decoding/encoding. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslac

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-09 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:06:49 +0100 (BST) schrieb Stuart Winter : > ARMedslack's installpkg differs from x86's because ARMedslack's is > patched for several speed improvements on ARM. Take a look at spkg. It's so much faster than the original package tools ;) -- Th

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
the repo setup in the > > slapt-getrc config file. > > Dependency checking! Horror! Sacrilege! > Geek :-P -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM

2011-09-06 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Please note the info that TI provides, especially point 1+2: IMPORTANT: * This Evaluation/Demo code is provided ONLY for users developing products with Texas Instruments Cortex(tm)-A8 based microprocessors (i.e.: Sitara(tm) and DaVinci(tm) platforms). * Request for access is approved on a case-by

[ARMedslack] Logitech Squeezebox Touch

2011-09-01 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I wonder if there is any information how to change the OS on a Logitech Squeezebox Touch? According to this blog it's an ARM based device running Linux: http://blog.sarine.nl/2010/09/30/squishybox-a-better-squeezebox-touch-experience/ https://github.com/DaveDavenport/squishybox/wiki/SqueezeBox

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
maybe it's possible to > have more then one kernel lingering around ? Anyone know how to build > kernel for the ac100 that will run armedslack ? > > Regards > David > > --- Ven 15/7/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder ha scritto: > > Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder > > Oggetto: Re: [AR

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
attach them to the mail. Instead upload them to an image hoster. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
e at least armv6 so they should run without problems. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
___ > >> ARMedslack mailing list > >> ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org > >> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > > > > ___ > > ARMedslack mailing list &g

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 14 July 2011 16:42:16 schrieb Manfred Müller: > @Thorsten: > > ot: was it really needed to reinvent the wheel with Salt instead of > improving the legacy LLS? I'm not a Linux Live user, so you have to ask this question on our ML ;-) -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
netbook is a very good start > to be prepared for the release of tegra 4. > > Regards, > > Manfred aka Quax -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-06 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
est tools. This is mandatory for a warranty request. > --- Ven 6/5/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder ha scritto: > > > Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder > > Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got > > corrupted A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org > > Dat

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
5.794893] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] May 5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [ 445.794896] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 May 5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [ 445.794898] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 41 73 4c 00 00 07 00 -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix

Re: [ARMedslack] Improving USB audio sound quality on the Dockstar

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 05 May 2011 10:32:52 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder: > Hi, > > I'm using a high quality USB audio device (Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702) with > my Dockstar. I've configured mpd to use the hardware interface without dmix > because dmix seems to be broken on the ARM p

[ARMedslack] Improving USB audio sound quality on the Dockstar

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ndation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc2:2120 Seagate RSS LLC Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08bb:2702 Texas Instruments Japan Speakers Is it possible to give the USB audio data transfers a higher priority? -- Thorsten

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-22 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ix it manually just tell me what fields I should leave and > where. This is what my client would normaly do as a reply: > "Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)" > > What's good in that and what's bad in that ? That&#x

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-21 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
-arm-1.tgz > root@slackware:/usr/src/surap_packages# du -ms . > 43 . > root@slackware:/usr/src/surap_packages# > > > Since booting from jffs2 image does not require initrd ... and maybe > one can do without documentation I'll see if I can fit that in a >

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel kirkwood-2.6.38.2: CONFIG_N_HDLC

2011-04-21 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:33:08 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder : > Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:39:16 +0100 (BST) > schrieb Stuart Winter : > > > I'll add the kernel option before the 13.37 release - either as a > > kernel rebuild, or a kernel update - which ever comes first. &

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-20 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
d be a good choice for it. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
d booting > from Doozan's uboot. I also use his Rescue System. What rescue system did you use? It seems my original pogoplug system (that one the dockstar is deliverd with) does not boot anymore. So some other fallback system would be nice. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ne MACH_TYPE_DOCKSTAR 2998 #define MACH_TYPE_SHEEVAPLUG 2097 If you want your kernel to recognize the dockstar you have to use 2998 as arcNumber in u-boot. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Another thing: Please don't use the "reply" button to start a new thread. Use "new mail" and add the ML address. Otherwise the thread view in mail clients is wrong. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org __

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
for it in Doozans forum. The arcNumber sets some board specific details like LED setup. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 19 April 2011 12:42:02 schrieb Davide: > Is there something I need to do in order to boot from a usb HDU that > differs from booting from a usb flash drive ? My Dockstar boots fine with Doozan's u-boot and the original Seagate Freeagent Go HD. -- Thorsten Mühlfeld

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel kirkwood-2.6.38.2: CONFIG_N_HDLC

2011-04-09 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
(16 MBit/s). -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] Kernel kirkwood-2.6.38.2: CONFIG_N_HDLC

2011-04-07 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
-> Non-standard serial port support (SERIAL_NONSTANDARD [=y]) -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] gdb python error

2011-04-07 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 07 April 2011 09:30:10 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder: > gdb shows this error on arm current: > > (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/bin/mpd -h > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/usr/share/gdb/aut

[ARMedslack] gdb python error

2011-04-07 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in import gdb.backtrace ImportError: No module named backtrace It works on x86_64 current. So either I'm missing a dep (but cannot find the right one yet) or some other problem. Maybe different gdb configure options? -- Tho

[ARMedslack] ARMed Slack repository with dependency support

2011-03-27 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
slapt-get/ Just install all of them and you are ready to go: slapt-get --add-keys slapt-get -u slapt-get -i whatever-you-want PS: this slapt-get version is patched to use the faster spkg package tool instead of pkgtools. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixo

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-17 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
partitions are touched at bootup, even they are not mounted. Was this issue introduced with new kernels? On another device I'm using a 2.6.24 and 2.6.29 kernel and I'm writing u-boot and u-boot-env from within Linux to the NAND, but u-boot does not complain about anything (as noted in

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-17 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
kernel to RAM address 0x80, load initrd to 0x110 and then boot both. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-17 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ew up you still have the original one to get things working again > without need for jtag. > Just noticed: I've used the old method from that page, that replaces /dev/mtd3 and chainloads the bootloader. But as Doozans bootloaders should be well tested now installation on mtd0 should

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
to start armedslack. If that fails > I'll try jeff's enhanced uboot. Some hints: Create first partition as fat on usb stick, second partition as ext4. The first will be the boot partition and contain your uImage. usb start ext2load usb 0

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
x_bootargs_root=root=/dev/mtdblock3 rw rootfstype=jffs2 ... and expects the root file system on mtd3 as jffs2. What you can do: Prepare a USB stick with a FAT boot partition. Place the kernel on it. Use usbstart and fatload to load the kernel to the RAM. Provide

Re: [ARMedslack] dockstar SOC unused features pin praceout

2011-03-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
chung As I'm German I have no problem with it :-D I remember a discussion about adding a RTC to the dockstar. Apparently they have found out a lot more now. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslac

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
2 boot partitions. IIRC I have changed these names in my own u-boot configuration, so someone else certainly can provide you the needed information. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
t; support a while ago. > If not then it'll be on when I push out 2.6.38 later this week. I'm running 2.6.36.3-kirkwood on my Dockstar. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
very small for an ARMed slack installation. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
hey need to be recompiled/remade ? I hav experience on zaurus and know > that kernels for c860 and c1000 are incompatible although the hardware > difference is minimal. The kirkwood kernel works fine on the dockstar. Only the LED won't work. Therefore you'd need a patched kernel.

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
;t be much room for additional packages. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] ARMed Slack on Toshiba AC100 netbook?

2011-03-01 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I wonder If anyone has tried ARMed Slack on a Toshiba AC100 netbook? http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-ac100-8-hour-smartbook-runs-android-2-1-on-a-1ghz-tegr/ It's available in Germany for 199 € and I know that it is possible to install Ubuntu on it. So anyone? :-) -- Tho

[ARMedslack] ARM board with PCIe slot

2011-02-23 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, is there any ARM board with a PCIe slot out there? ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] DHCP as default

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, maybe it would be a good idea to set DHCP as default for eth0 in the mini-rootfs images? It would simplify things for newcomers, especially when ARMed Slack is installed on devices without having a console. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org

Re: [ARMedslack] #armedslack IRC channel on freenode

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 18 February 2011 10:21:07 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > > check it every day or so so might see you around if you drop in! > > > > > > s. > > > > What about a jabber chat room? :-) > > What about using a Jabber client to connect to IRC ? :) I'm still using Pidgin. So no problem. But IRC is

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 18 February 2011 10:20:44 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > But of course now I wonder what caused this serious fail: > > * Did the Linux system (ARMed Slack 13.1) freeze and therefore corrupt > > the file systems? > > * Did the USB connection somehow got lost/unstable? > > * Did the hard disk f

Re: [ARMedslack] #armedslack IRC channel on freenode

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wednesday 27 October 2010 19:16:14 schrieb Stuart Winter: > Hi > > Robby's setup an #armedslack channel on the irc.freenode.net IRC service > -- there had been some discussions about armedslack on #slackware, but it > was being lost in the noise. > Hopefully this might be useful -- I leave mysel

[ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, yesterday I've logged in to my Dockstar via SSH and noticed that almost all commands fail for various reasons (e.g. segmentation faults). I tried to reboot the machine, which failed, too (it never rebooted, ping was still available, ssh was not reachable anymore). So I had to unplug the pow

Re: [ARMedslack] U-Boot + UbiFS

2011-02-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:47 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > does anybody know if U_Boot already supports loading the kernel of a > > UbiFS partition? I've built U-Boot 2010.09 for an Atmel board and I've > > seen that there are some ubi sources included but the U-Boot binary does > > not offe

[ARMedslack] U-Boot + UbiFS

2011-02-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, does anybody know if U_Boot already supports loading the kernel of a UbiFS partition? I've built U-Boot 2010.09 for an Atmel board and I've seen that there are some ubi sources included but the U-Boot binary does not offer any ubi related commands. __

Re: [ARMedslack] mfloat-abi

2011-02-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 04 February 2011 15:34:57 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder: > They say: > "Floating point performance, with or without an FPU is very much faster, > and mixing soft and hardfloat code is possible". Here is a benchmark that I've found: http://www.linuxfordevices.c

Re: [ARMedslack] mfloat-abi

2011-02-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 04 February 2011 15:07:34 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > Hmm, I did not really see what's the default here (soft, softfp, hard)? > > Me neither - I thought that the specs there were what was used by default. > I had a further quick read about it and that isn't the case. > > > As soft/softfpe

Re: [ARMedslack] mfloat-abi

2011-02-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 28 January 2011 12:39:34 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > - soft: only software emulation > > - softfp + mfpu=xxx: enables the compiler to use FP > > instructions/registers inside functions, but not as function > > parameters. This way, code remains compatible with 'soft' libraries > > - hard:

[ARMedslack] mfloat-abi

2011-01-27 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I did not really understand what's the difference between -mfloat-abi=soft and -mfloat-abi=softfp? Does "soft" always use software floating point and "softfp" could use hardware floating point if a correct -mfpu is given? And why is none of them used in Armed Slack? In my understanding it s

[ARMedslack] Seagate Freeagent Dockstar price

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I've bought my Dockstar some months ago here in Germany for 20 € + 5 € shipping cost. Now I've noticed that the price has raised here to 80 € + shipping. So my question is: What the cheapest price nowadays all over the world? Of course I have to check shipping cost to Germany then... Thank

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 14 January 2011 11:20:51 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > I wonder how it booted the second time? IIRC I had to comment out the > > fdisk sectionin a rc script because the Dockstar does not have an RTC and > > after reboot the system time is set to 1970 again which causes another > > fsck run (

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:37:12 schrieb Rich: > On the initial boot, it did boot > the kernel and started the system initialization scripts but then fdisk > the sda1 and rebooted. The second boot did complete and I got a login > prompt on the serial terminal. I wonder how it booted the sec

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:00:10 + (GMT) schrieb Stuart Winter : > > > Armed works fine on device with 32MB of RAM. > > Heh. It's called "ARMedslack" or "Slackware ARM". Every time I see > "Armed" I get images of men in balaclavas committing a bank > robbery ;-) > > Yes 32MB will work for minim

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 09 December 2010 14:48:25 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > I have a serial cable but I can't bear debian works without it. :-) > > Hang on a minute. So you've got a serial cable... > use it, figure out where the boot process stops (if at all). > Then once we know what the problem is, it can

Re: [ARMedslack] How to compile the whole Slackware ARM?

2010-11-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 18 November 2010 11:41:57 schrieb Carlo Caione: > Here some pointers (not mine), about performance for different compilers > (but same parameters): > > http://hardwarebug.org/2009/08/05/arm-compiler-shoot-out/ > Thanks for providing this link. As I can see there FLAC uses integer and

Re: [ARMedslack] How to compile the whole Slackware ARM?

2010-11-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 18 November 2010 10:51:47 schrieb Carlo Caione: > Ok, I hijack the discussion. > As I explained before in my previous email the idea is to recompile > armedslack with the right optimization for beaglebord (armv7 + neon + > cortex-a8 optimization) How much speed improvement can be gaine

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

2010-09-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
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Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-09-08 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:03:15 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm > > packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? > > Yep. Go back to the FTP site and download the script "dbuild" - I just > put it there. OK, had time to take a look a

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 14:27:31 schrieb Christophe Lyon: > > Did you use distcc there, too? What about moving all jobs to the other > > hosts? I know there are still tasks left for the build host (linking?), > > but no idea how much RAM they need. > > But I've already thought that RAM will be a

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:03:15 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm > > packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? > > Yep. Go back to the FTP site and download the script "dbuild" - I just > put it there. Thanks, I'll have a look ther

[ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? What I have right now: I've compiled the cross toolchain from ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/x-toolchain/ and installed it in /opt/arm/$LOCALARCH I've ins

[ARMedslack] Error in perl package

2010-08-29 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
There is an error in the perl package: mv: cannot stat `usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.new': No such file or directory WARNING: Post-installation script failed. (256) Actually the dir should be usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1 ___

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-29 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
ion: 1 Hardware: Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board Revision: Serial : Am Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:24:44 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder : > I've ordered one of these Dockstars now. I cannot get any cheaper > thing here (25 € incl. shipping). Le

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-24 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
I've ordered one of these Dockstars now. I cannot get any cheaper thing here (25 € incl. shipping). Let's see what I can do with it. Am Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:39:19 -0600 schrieb Tyler T : > > what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? > > 1.2GHz ARMv5TE (Kirkwood), 128MB DDR RAM, 256MB fl

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi laprjns, what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? Am Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:57 -0400 schrieb Richard Lapointe : > I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would > like to run ARMedslack on it. Is there a single site that provides > instructions on how I would

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Saturday 14 August 2010 18:20:45 schrieb Tyler T: > Hello and welcome! There doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic on this > list, I guess because Armedslack "just works". Salix looks perfect for > netbooks, maybe an ARM port of it is in order. ;) Now I've managed to get Armed Slack working on an

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:20:45 -0600 schrieb Tyler T : > Hello and welcome! There doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic on this > list, I guess because Armedslack "just works". Salix looks perfect for > netbooks, maybe an ARM port of it is in order. ;) Yes, this probably is something I'll try to do i

[ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-13 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Just wanted to say a short hello to the list. I'm one of the developers at Salix OS (salixos.org) and as I'm in contact with Linux based ARM devices at work I'm just interested in what's going on here. Probably I'll buy a little ARM board for playing with it at home, because I'm tired of having t