Re: qcontrol development

2011-03-06 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 6 March 2011 15:58, Phil Endecott spam_from_debian_...@chezphil.org wrote: Simply installing the compiler and related tools, and compiling programs, will not make the device unusable or unreliable for those other purposes. Also, you can use a chroot or pbuilder (even better cowbuilder) not

Profiling on armel

2011-02-25 Thread Luca Niccoli
Is there a reason oprofile isn't built in debian armel kernels? It seems to be (as a module) on x86 and amd64... I'd like to recompile some intensively used libraries with -march=armv5te and see how much it helps performance, and I could use some profiling tool to see from which libraries it make

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-24 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 22 February 2011 11:27, Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: Compressing my initrd with lzma instead of gzip reduces its size by 30%, so it could fit. BEWARE though, there could be catches I'm not aware of (I haven't actually tried booting in this configuration), maybe Martin could

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-24 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 23 February 2011 21:52, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Thanks, Martin!  I'll keep that in mind... I've also got a Client.  Do you know a uboot binary that supports SD-card booting on the OpenRD-Client?

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 23 February 2011 04:04, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: So now the question is:  What version should I upgrade to?  Is it OK to use the same one I used to upgrade the SheevaPlug?  U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary Don't. I did and I ended up with a half-bricked OpenRD Base. If you find the

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Luca Niccoli
Mmm, I double checked and found this post [0] that states that the version I linked doesn't work on the Ultimate. Also, the u-boot version in debian (and upstream git as well) appears only to support openrd-base, w/o SD. This thread could give you some better pointers for a working version:

Re: Should I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate?

2011-02-22 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 22 February 2011 01:35, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: But I'm concerned that there may be something more subtle that I'm missing.  For example, this machine will eventually be installed at a remote location doing environmental monitoring.  If there's a power failure (not un-likely

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-22 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 21 February 2011 21:00, Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: The 8 MB flash is divided into different partitions and the ramdisk partition is only 6 MB; see http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/boot.html Thanks for the info. Compressing my initrd with lzma instead of gzip reduces its size

Re: Alignement on ARM

2010-05-12 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 12 May 2010 20:21, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: Luca,     thanks    for     your     answer.    Unfortunately,     using __attribute__((aligned(2)))   would   align   the  pointer   to   struct sockaddr. I have no way to force alignment of the struct itself. Gee, I completely

Re: brscan2scr-0.2.5.1

2010-05-11 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 11 May 2010 15:23, Carl Fredricksen cl.fredrick...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you. I have looked into the source package closer now. There are a lot of C sources provided, but indeed some directories only have header files and shared object libraries. I didn't notice that at the

Re: Alignement on ARM

2010-05-11 Thread Luca Niccoli
Have you tried changing struct sockaddr *ifa_addr; with struct sockaddr *ifa_addr __attribute__((aligned(2))); in your declaration of struct ifaddrs? That attribute lets you force an arbitrary alignment for a variable. Cheers, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Machine similar to ancina anyone? (was: DM needs helps with build failure (yorick on armel))

2010-05-07 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 7 May 2010 10:58, Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr wrote: This is the info I got from Stephen Gran on d-admin: Processor : Feroceon rev 0 (v5l) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS: 1199.30 Features: swp half thumb fastmult

Alignment issues

2010-04-10 Thread Luca Niccoli
Hi, I've recently submitted bug #576944 and could use some help to trace it down better, and understand if it's really a bug. Some more things I've noticed: If I set /proc/cpu/alignment to 0 (ignore) or 3 (fixup+warn) I see three alignment traps each time _xapian.so is loaded (with

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 18 February 2010 14:49, u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote: I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a manifold increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses 10W. Are there any brands of USB sticks that other users can recommend that are more resilient?

Debian on openrd-base howto

2009-11-17 Thread Luca Niccoli
I installed debian on a OpenRD-base board. I took some notes, and I thought they could be useful since I needed to gather infos scattered around the net. A tftp server it's needed. I used atftpd. All the commands are entered via (usb)serial console to the openrd. It goes like this: * Update