Re: [Bulk] Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 19:31 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 23/06/2014 10:36, Stuart Winter wrote: Hello Hi, Can't help you with much and may be off mark with the following but, My kernel has the support for appended DTBs so I also tried appending the FDT blob to the uImage -

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread David Hicks
Hi Stuart, I'm sorry this is going to be a non-answer as I haven't tried device tree boot on my sheevaplug. Just wanted to answer this - I don't believe that the sheevaplug is actually an eSATA version - it doesn't have an eSATA port -- maybe there's just support on board. IIRC the original

Fwd: [Bulk] Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Stuart Winter
isn't the 'dtb' supposed to be appended to the zImage and then the uImage created with mkimage? Thanks -- it dawned on me that this was the case after I had sent the mail, so I assume it will boot once I add it to the zImage - I'll test it shortly. However, I still don't know why U-Boot

Re: [Bulk] Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/06/2014 10:36, Stuart Winter wrote: Hello I'm hoping someone can help point out the way to make U-Boot work with Flattened Device Tree on the SheevaPlug. Marvell setenv bootargs earlyprintk console=ttyS0,115200n8 kbd=uk nic=auto:eth0:dhcp root=/dev/ram rw Marvell bootm 0x0080

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread drEagle
Sorry, Forgot the ML... On 24/06/2014 13:45, drEagle wrote: Hi, Never tried for now the fdt commands; zimage cat method works just fine on kirkwood and armada. On 23/06/2014 11:36, Stuart Winter wrote: ... Does anybody have any idea why it doesn't work or how to make it work? I would

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 14:21 +0200, drEagle wrote: Sorry, Forgot the ML... On 24/06/2014 13:45, drEagle wrote: Hi, Never tried for now the fdt commands; zimage cat method works just fine on kirkwood and armada. On 23/06/2014 11:36, Stuart Winter wrote: ... Does anybody

Re: Fwd: [Bulk] Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 11:40 +0100, Stuart Winter wrote: However, I still don't know why U-Boot doesn't seem to be supplying the FTD blob when it's been loaded itself. Not sure what you mean here. u-boot needs to be told to pass an fdt (which must already be in RAM) by passing the address as

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:58 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/06/2014 19:41, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the Dreamplug? Not recently. I'm about to leave on a trip so I won't

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/06/2014 13:55, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:58 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/06/2014 19:41, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the Dreamplug? Not recently.

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

2014-06-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk writes: TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based QNAP systems as ./kirkwood-qnap --info and report the results in this thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as you can). $ ./kirkwood-info.sh .: 87:

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Stuart Winter
the FTD blob when it's been loaded itself. Not sure what you mean here. u-boot needs to be told to pass an fdt (which must already be in RAM) by passing the address as the third argument to bootm or bootz. If you don't have an initrd (the second argument) then use -. The DTB was loaded

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 16:19 +0100, Stuart Winter wrote: the FTD blob when it's been loaded itself. Not sure what you mean here. u-boot needs to be told to pass an fdt (which must already be in RAM) by passing the address as the third argument to bootm or bootz. If you don't have an

Encrytion on a QNAP

2014-06-24 Thread Lee Williams
Hello, since I have to reinstall my NAS on a new HDD, I thought it would be a good idea to set up encryption this time. But I'm not sure how exactly I should start on this. I think the standard way to do this is using the dm-crypt facilities built into the Debian installer. Now, will this work

Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15

2014-06-24 Thread drEagle
On 24/06/2014 14:51, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 14:21 +0200, drEagle wrote: What about the uboots fdt commands [1] ? AFAIK that's mostly about modifying an in memory FDT, but it doesn't actual deal with passing it to the kernel, which is done by passing the address as the

Re: Encrytion on a QNAP

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 17:18 +0200, Lee Williams wrote: Hello, since I have to reinstall my NAS on a new HDD, I thought it would be a good idea to set up encryption this time. But I'm not sure how exactly I should start on this. I think the standard way to do this is using the dm-crypt

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 10:59 +0100, David Pottage wrote: On 17/06/14 08:49, Ian Campbell wrote: Hello, TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based QNAP systems as ./kirkwood-qnap --info and report the results in this thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 15:12 +, Phil Endecott wrote: Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk writes: TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based QNAP systems as ./kirkwood-qnap --info and report the results in this thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 08:49 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Hello, TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based QNAP systems as ./kirkwood-qnap --info and report the results in this thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as you can). The

Re: Encrytion on a QNAP

2014-06-24 Thread Björn Wetterbom
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 17:18 +0200, Lee Williams wrote: Lee, are you on the list or should we continue to cc? Hello, since I have to reinstall my NAS on a new HDD, I thought it would be a good idea to set up

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/06/2014 18:01, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 15:20 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: As I was trying a fresh install I first used the current images (kernel initrd) from wheezy. I then tried jessie and when that failed I tried the last images from squeeze. All failed at the same