Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
response to the ARM Summit doesn't mean that nobody cares or that the problems seem to large to solve. It just means that we're going to have to find a different way to get this work done. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
with broad coverage of the SoC devices the kernel supports now. As such refactoring consolidated larger and larger chunks of kernel code, new designs would gravitate towards those consolidated implementations because they would be the dominant references. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
On Oct 28, 2011 5:31 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: i say quotes illegal quotes because the fucking morons at infotmic forced everyone to sign NDAs before receiving the BSP (including kernel source code) thus losing their rights to actually distribute their *own* BSPs

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
On Oct 28, 2011 7:37 AM, Phil Endecott spam_from_debian_...@chezphil.org wrote: The i.MX LOCO board, the OMAP panda board, and some of the others cost about the same as your tablet. Hardware that is not mass produced has some other issues, namely availability and vendor lock-in You think

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Start board too (I think I have one on my desk somewhere, actually). But I don't like the temptation to turn something like that into a product without a lot of additional thought. I'm looking at you too, Beagleboard. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
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Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
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Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
filesystem AND developer tools in sync. This isn't me self-promoting (ok, not much). Rather, Debian is just MADE to make this stuff awesome. I'm merely a lowly user thereof. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
that route, rather than making a super-bootloader. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADkCAuuX36FQwAYfW6-vBFWC=FR

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennart: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: What you are doing is to me a terrible idea that I hate and have always hated. I hated it on the netwinder in the late 90s, I hated it on the alpha in the form of MILO. They were always getting

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
the device model in something that you can parse pre-kernel boot. But I digress... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
forever. Martin Michlmayr is really, really good. But I think he has as little time as I do for these kinds of things! Does anyone else smell dead horse? :-) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
, it becomes what the end user sees as the bootloader. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADkCAusUMdg

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
on in most ARM board files should be done as module_init(), not board_init(). If we were to be more vigilant about that, then DT would have more chances to improve things. What were we talking about, again? :-) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
bootloader (the aforementioned kernel+initramfs) doing a wget, multistrap, ssh, throwing up a web page, or something else intelligent to help them get things back into line. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
to be different, then they shouldn't be different. There you go, trying to simplify the universe again. :-) The phones in question are already designed. The unicorn has already left the castle. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card (or rather arguing over what a boot loader should do)

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
more accepting of the inevitable failure when they also see that you have planned for it and already have a recovery strategy in place. That's professionalism. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
they are because it's both the path of least-resistance and there aren't any ready-made better alternatives; and (b) they're always behind schedule, and the margins are thin enough that there isn't much opportunity for fixing tomorrow's problems today. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Plug computer with two eth

2013-03-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
don't understand why this device (and just about every other Marvell chip I have ever encountered) has to kick out so much heat. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Arm bof and raspbian.

2013-08-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
a problem with that. Now let's start using those great tools to promote and embrace ecosystem diversity, rather than trying to decide what e.g. a one-true-ARM configuration has to look like. We don't have to leave anyone behind, really... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
the ordinary Debian tools that drags its feet a lot before going to the user prompt. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-17 Thread Bill Gatliff
a few seconds to copy the initramfs from onboard NAND into the system RAM before it launches the kernel. If you ditched ramfs you could cut those few seconds out. It's not masses I suppose On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8

Re: VGA cards on USB or such?

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
boards that use these chips. They're pretty low-power. HTH, b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: objc on armel - why not?

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
... When I get the Thecus box up I'll try compiling it with armel and see what happens... unless someone knows better... M Leisner is back up, and I installed an armel chroot on it. You're welcome to use it if that helps. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please reschedule regina-normal/arm build

2007-12-17 Thread Bill Gatliff
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Re: Thecus 2100, extremly slow r8169

2007-12-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
for scp, the way you can for ssh? That's a pretty light algorithm, but maybe not such that you'd notice any significant improvement. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:00:02PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
about repetitions, Bill, thought I'd put this on list too. You did. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
they're stressing _me_ even harder! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... Upgraded the chroots last night - or tried to. It has exceptionally slow so I had to leave it running

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
that _arm_ is lacking high-grunt hardware, or _arme[lb]_? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
be unreliable? Hedges is an N2100 that I outfitted with 512MB SDRAM. Anyone know how it's holding up? Top says it's not idling, but loaded 1.15 on average with 32MB free. Dmesg and the logs don't show anything ugly. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost needs help on ARM

2008-02-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
kernel problem. Anyone? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: leisner: rm assertion

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
seeing this?) Yep, I've seen it: http://bugs.debian.org/462677 I'll see about the workaround. I don't know the root cause. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian on N4100

2008-02-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
in the process of building my own kernel, one with NFS support so that I can use debootstrap. Suggestions? I just don't want to reinvent the wheel... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
appear to work with an EABI-only kernel. Thoughts? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok. I'm very, very close. Details to follow shortly. :) :) Still very close, but not there just yet. :( To recap. I rebuilt the wpkg kernel, to turn on things like NFS and ramdisks. I used a gcc-4.2.1 kernel constructed with crosstool-ng. I used the ads initrd

Re: Debian on N4100

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
interrupt handler! 0Rebooting in 5 seconds I sometimes see OOPSes in udp_v4_get_port as well. Any ideas? This is the wpkg linux-2.6.17.8 kernel, rebuilt to add ramdisks, md raid 5 and initrd. The gcc came from crosstool-ng-1.0. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
! Just my (non-DD) opinion... BTW, I've got my n4100 running armel now, and even with 512MB the performance is ... underwhelming. And by ARM standards, this machine is big-iron! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Trendnet TV-IP312W/Zonet ZVC7630W/Fitivision CS-1013

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Gatliff
GoatZilla wrote: Has anyone looked at getting Debian on one of these things? I haven't, but I think you should. ;) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video application

2008-03-28 Thread Bill Gatliff
, though. Maybe beyond what you're after, but even a cinematic-quality experience is probably beyond the NSLU2. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LUKS overhead (was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)

2008-04-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
the last few releases? It looks like there's more than an accelerator API there lately, I'm trying to get a sense of the motivations for its use--- as well as how to use it, of course. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Hedges will need some downtime next week

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Gatliff
. :( I'll post the date/time here when I know it. Could someone set up a crontab to shut the machine down, with warning, at that time? Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: LCD Dot-Matrix Display Bona MG24064-01

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I hope, next week I will get my 19 2U case and now I like to know, if the Dot-Matrix display Bona MG24064-01 is supported under arm/i386 and could replace a monitor for the console... Anything's possible! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] MiniPCI GPS and GSM card for router

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
could share the GPS engine's output with all the machines on your LAN. Likewise a GSM modem often looks like a PPP connection, so it could be shared as well... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] MiniPCI GPS and GSM card for router

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
options? I know they're out there, but I can't point to any part numbers right now... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
Barry Tennison wrote: I wonder whether anyone can help a very puzzled moderately skilled debian and NSLU2 hacker? Apologies for the length of explanation needed. Are you running out of memory on the NSLU2? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: Thecus N299

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Gatliff
How does solder onto the RedBoot UART count as a remote exploit? ;) -Original Message- From: Michael Goetze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: 4/29/08 3:42 PM Subject: Thecus N299 Hi, aparently Thecus has released a new, incredibly cheap, 2-Bay NAS, the N299. It

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Gatliff
what to do with that information, though... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-08-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
. Or, not. Not my call. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: offline install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
with, I have a console of some type (usually serial) to control the device with. Also, WD does put the source code for everything on the MyBook WEII on their website Wow, I had no idea :) Is this thing a better option than an NSLU2, for those with the budget? Hmmm... b.g. -- Bill

Re: offline install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
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Re: offline install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
Jonsen, Dan wrote: I guess that either (1) this is a highly customized Linux distro from WD, or (2) the ARM architecture doesn't use GRUB, because I can't find a grub.conf file. Probably both are true. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Bill Gatliff wrote: I found in the .17 kernel where Thecus commented out the EEPROM checksum test in the e1000 driver, I'm going to do the same and see what happens. My first attempt caused the code to load all ff's for the MAC, which obviously isn't what I want. ... and this patch

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-08 14:30]: So now the kernel is very happy talking to the drives, apparently. But it doesn't like the e1000's: I thought you were aware of this, but in case you're not: Thecus removed the EEPROM from both i82541 chips

Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Korsgaard wrote: Bill == Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Bill ... and this patch is so bad, I hesitate to post it. But Bill if I don't, I'll lose it myself! :) ;) Bill +#else Bill +#warning TODO: Figure out how to deal with EEPROM checksum on N4100 Bill

Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
platforms, or am I into undiscovered territory here? I'm willing to submit patches once I find a minimally-invasive and robust solution, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel... (Crossposted to debian-arm, since it's an ARM platform and I've already raised the issue there). Thanks! b.g. -- Bill

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
John Winters wrote: Bill Gatliff wrote: [snip] The MAC Address will be reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00, which is invalid and requires you to set the proper MAC address manually before continuing to enable this network device. [snip] To date, the only way I've seen around this is to just hack out

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
to make the driver Do The Right Thing, i.e. just keep the MAC address if it's already there? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
if it finds them in an acceptable state... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [E1000-devel] Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
kernel. It's sub-optimal, as some iop32x boards have PCI slots. I agree, it would be an excellent capability. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard drive connected to the slug

2008-09-26 Thread Bill Gatliff
whatever is prompting the event dies completely. :( Regardless of the answer to your question, I'd procure a backup storage source and put it to work right now. And don't shut the ailing drive down until you have all the data safely off of it--- it might not restart. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL

Re: debian on thecus n4100

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Gatliff
is that the code for the n2100 is 99% of what's needed, it can be made to work, but I haven't had time to finish the n4100 hooks in the mainline kernel. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

I don't have root on hedges.billgatliff.com any more...

2008-10-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: A catastrophic system failure has nuked the keys that allowed me root access on hedges.billgatliff.com. I hope someone else has been babysitting that machine! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: I don't have root on hedges.billgatliff.com any more...

2008-10-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Guys: A catastrophic system failure has nuked the keys that allowed me root access on hedges.billgatliff.com. I hope someone else has been babysitting that machine! :) I don't know the root password

Re: BUG booting 2.6.26-1-iop32x on Thecus N2100

2008-11-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
.. I haven't looked at any of the related code. Does iop32x use gpiolib? Maybe the GPIO pin that controls the beep is at the end of an i2c GPIO expander. If that's the case, then there is at least one sleep whilst waiting for the i2c bus controller to complete the transaction. b.g. -- Bill

Re: debian-arm on omap3

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Gatliff
of the armel architecture, works for me. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My co-lo ISP is kicking me out...

2008-12-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
no problem for outbound, but it will make it hard for anyone except me to do maintenance. We could possibly address that with openvpn. Any other ideas? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without using Debian installer?

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
, because there really never is such a thing as a one-off. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: arm (not armel) d-i buildd is over

2009-02-15 Thread Bill Gatliff
wants to take part in lenny+half. I think it makes sense to support arm for lenny+half in terms of the kernel upgrade, but not for the installer (since we don't want any new installations of arm anyway). That would make it a lot easier for existing deployments, yes. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b

Upgrade arm installation to armel?

2009-02-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but... :) If I have a machine like an n2100 that's running lenny arm, is it possible to merely upgrade it to armel? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian

2009-02-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
;) ) Tested on my lenny arm n2100, same (good) results. Speed increase is quite apparent. Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Keyspan-enabled kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Gatliff
it. But it's broken. Anyway, ... and I'm almost ashamed to ask since this is a Debian mailing list and all, ... :) does anyone have an n2100 kernel that talks to Keyspan adapters? I could really use one! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm

Re: Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
into the Thecus? You'll have to modify the parameters RedBoot passes to the kernel, of course... That's the first idea that comes to my mind. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: doubt

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Gatliff
rajagopal venugopal wrote: hi all, my doubt is whether i can use my own kernel for for my own arm hardware and make the kernel work with debian GNU/Linux Yes. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: genesi and open rd

2010-02-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
optimizations for processors that support them? I have a hunch that they offer at best minimal improvements except for specific packages/situations, but I have never taken the initiative to produce a quantitative answer... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff Embedded systems training and consulting http

Re: Alignement on ARM

2010-05-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
, or a calculated value, then only $deity$ knows what you can say about it other than it's bad, bad code. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
be really cool if we could find a way to make it easy to launch a buildd to create packages for, say, A8 with VFP and EABI, and the package scripts somehow tolerate a new ARM-based arch name that they haven't seen before because I'm the first guy to try to optimize for a certain machine. b.g. -- Bill

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
with that, actually--- an ecosystem of unofficial armel repositories cropping up containing optimized packages for specific configurations. Especially if it's true that Debian won't officially support much more than armeb/armel. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
-all? You have my vote in support. I generally uninstall all but fbdev; but the list you suggest is fine by me. Just my $0.02, since I'm not a DD. I am a pretty heavy embedded user of debian, tho. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Gatliff
stick around a bit longer.  But if it's a separate driver, then best to handle it separately with -dovefb and those others. I think the name s3c6410 is a reference to an ARM-based SoC. Completely unrelated to -s3 and -s3virge. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Bill Gatliff
] Not at the same time, of course. ;-) -- Bill Gatliff Embedded Linux *is* user friendly, it just chooses its friends carefully. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help in building efax-gtk on arm

2005-03-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAkJHhdMACgkQQKW+7XLQPLE9KwCfQgQlKXHcHryIITGJQpr3rB1n IAIAn24aQIdjFB/ZnVEOFeS8TTEEWbWM =g8Bh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Bill Gatliff Get real embedded GNU training from a real embedded GNU developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unidentified subject!

2005-04-16 Thread Bill Gatliff
for ARM hardware, please let me know! Thanks! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff It said Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2000 or better, so I installed Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big endian in debian ARM

2005-05-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
switches, to do things like specify endianness, cpu optimizations, etc. I've been asking that one for a while... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff Get real embedded GNU training from a real embedded GNU developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian on Linksys NSLU2 howto

2005-07-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
and feedback welcome. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emacs is my operating system, and Linux its device driver. --Bake Timmons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Linksys NSLU2 howto

2005-07-18 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: Have you sent it to embeddedlinuxdevices.com? Make that linuxdevices.com, which, as you might expect, has a lot of Linux-related information for embedded hardware too... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Cause penguins are so sensitive to my needs. --Lyle Lovett

gcj on debian-arm host?

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Gatliff
)= 0x62000 getpid()= 1786 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A: A nervous wreck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on Linksys NSLU2 howto

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Gatliff
. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two engineering students crossing the campus when one said, Where did you get such a great bike? The second engineer replied, Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground

Re: Debian on Linksys NSLU2 howto

2005-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
accessible over a WAN) for the Good of the Cause. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional embedded GNU training. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Linksys NSLU2 howto

2005-07-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
.. ARM is in fact endian neutral, and the system specification does contain provisions for selecting and switching the endian sense of the host processor. But a lot of the low-end ARM implementations are fixed little-endian. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional embedded

Re: attempt at a big-endian debian ARM 'port'

2005-08-27 Thread Bill Gatliff
/ b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any objections to armeb port posts on this list?

2005-09-21 Thread Bill Gatliff
Rod: But we figured we should ask first :-) Debian-arm is currently very low traffic. Some discussion about *anything* would be welcome. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: requalification of arm as etch release architecture

2005-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
, especially if that gets me onboard as a DD. But I hesitate to be the offical package maintainer long-term because kernel work keeps me pretty busy. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: requalification of arm as etch release architecture

2005-10-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
consistently, then I'd hope that we would gain maximum collective benefit that way. Add my vote for stable. Hmm, bit of a teatise, hope it was worth reading. Quite worth it. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Unidentified subject!

2005-10-13 Thread Bill Gatliff
fully-functional JTAG ports, and run debian-arm (except the MIPS platforms). :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: requalification of arm as etch release architecture

2005-10-13 Thread Bill Gatliff
or not, but I'll fire up a dpkg-buildpackage of perl on my machine here and see what happens. Someone PLEASE let me know if this is stupid. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stalled with pbuilder

2005-10-13 Thread Bill Gatliff
the cached apt archive contents - unmounting dev/pts filesystem - unmounting proc filesystem - cleaning the build env - removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//16170 and its subdirectories As far as I can tell, the pbuilder create worked fine. Any ideas? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL

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