On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 06:46:14PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote:
> I basically stumbled across this. I just did apt-get update and I'm
> running dpkg 1.17.25. There's a page at
> https://fossies.org/diffs/dpkg/1.18.0_vs_1.18.1/src/selinux.c-diff.html
> talking about an selinux change in dpkg 1.18.1.
On 08.11.2014 10:44, Markus Krebs wrote:
[...]
> Since kernel 3.12 (i. e. when dtb was introduced) I'm experiencing
> various erratic problems when transferring files over the network. For
> example unison (over ssh) is complaining about "Corrupted MAC on input";
> or when I'm trying to read a file
On 27/04/13 17:03, Brian Platt wrote:
> I've got a couple of NSLU2 (slugs) sitting around idle and I thought as
> a little project I could put them in a cluster. Can anyone recommend
> some lightweight cluster software that can be used to share
> storage/resources?
Back in the day I used to use Op
On 09/04/13 10:42, Steve McIntyre wrote:
[...]
> Luke, you are utterly out of order here. Calm down. You may have some
> (justified) dislike of the Pi, but there is absolutely no need nor
> justification to abuse others in the Debian community because of that.
Hear, hear.
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Herman Swartz wrote:
[...]
> I have a Sheeva PLUG dev kit with Debian Linux release and the USB port is
> not able to handle having a second USB device connected simultaineously. I
> tried connecting a USB hub into the single USB of the Sheeva PLUG and then
> plugging a hard drive into the hub.
Grant wrote:
> How small can the Debian ARM rootfs get? Are the packages listed with
> "armel" in the Debian online package database compatible with ARM?
armel is the name for the for the softfloat ARM architecture using the
EABI calling convention. It replaces the old arm architecture, which
use
On 12/08/12 01:45, Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
> A bit more than half the time, when I reboot the machine, uboot tries
> (and fails) to boot from the data disk. To be sure of a good reboot, I
> need to physically disconnect the data disk and re-plug it after the
> kernel is loaded but before the file
phi gcc wrote:
[...]
> Meanwhile I investigate QEMU... (I go ask a qemu question regarding
> networking)
If you're doing kernel development, qemu has one killer feature in that
it's got gdb integration. You can, at any point, halt the emulated
processor and debug what it's doing. Which means t
On 07/08/12 21:26, lkcl luke wrote:
[...]
> i thought amery had found a solution to that? i'm sure it's
> documented on the rhombus-tech.net wiki, on the "server" page, or
> there's a kernel compile-time switch for de-reserving the stupid,
> stupid hard-coded mali memory allocation.
AFAIK it's o
On 07/08/12 20:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:38:30PM +0200, Rob van der Hoeven wrote:
>> Thanks for the link to the Mele a1000! Looks even better than the
>> Hackberry (its a *complete* little PC for only $70).
>
> And it has SATA, but only 512MB ram. Almost perfect.
John Winters wrote:
> On 05/08/12 21:40, David Given wrote:
> [snip]
>> I run cowlark.com on a SheevaPlug attached to a terabyte of spinning
>> disk and 64GB of SSD.
>
> I'm intrigued - how is your SSD connected to the SheevaPlug?
It's a Kingston SATA3 disk
On 05/08/12 21:01, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
[...]
> You are not alone. A while ago I read about this guy who had a
> webserver for customers and went from a Sparc box to a laptop and then
> to a Seagate Dockstar with external drive. And now it is being powered
> by solar arrays, which also cha
On 22/07/12 18:09, Mike Thompson wrote:
[...]
> I'm very familiar with Atmel's 8-bit chips, but know almost
> nothing about their more capable ARM and other 32-bit solutions. I'll
> take a look and see what I can find.
It might be worth looking into their AVR32 architecture. It's not ARM,
but it
On 22/07/12 06:42, Mike Thompson wrote:
> Does anyone know of a single chip ARM based solution that is capable
> of running a very minimal install of Debian Wheezy armel? Perhaps a
> <100MHz armv4/v5 chip with onboard flash, 4/8/16/32 MB ram and a
> single USB peripheral port. A bonus would be a
Tixy wrote:
[...]
> Not that horrible. I just did a kernel build on my laptop in an ARM
> chroot and it took 19m43s, doing it as a cross-build took 1m14s. I
> haven't got my Pandaboard setup to do a comparison, but I
> suspect it wouldn't be much faster than my emulated ARM run.
I'm interested to
Mike Thompson wrote:
> I am potentially interested in creating/maintaining a Debian port that
> would mirror the work being done in armhf, but with the port tuned to
> the specifics of the Raspberry Pi hardware which I believe is
> ARMv6+VFPv2.
Does Debian armhf still target ARMv7 and above? I ca
On 09/02/12 19:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for all - and thank you for the tip about openocd. It turns out that
> the lead I'm using - which is better quality than the
> lead supplied - doesn't work very reliably on two of the machines I tried it
> on. On the laptop, it worked imm
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...]
> ahh... webkit. do you have a system anywhere that has 2gb of RAM?
> if not, i strongly strongly advise skipping the debug builds on any
> webkit library.
I'm running the prerelease Ubuntu precise on armhf. They have built
webkit, but it just plain does
Carlos O'Donell wrote:
[...]
> There appears to be no good reason for it to be called `struct user`
> on Linux (on other OSs this is harder to control), it should have been
> named something that doesn't clash with the applications namespace
> e.g. struct __user.
This might be a good time to menti
On 14/11/11 18:17, Phil Endecott wrote:
[...]
> If you want a tablet then I'd investigate getting an Android tablet and
> re-purposing it; I'm not up-to-date with which one is best for that. If you
> want a convertible, buy a tablet plus a bluetooth keyboard.
Someone recently showed me this:
htt
Gordan Bobic wrote:
[...]
> I still think that putting NAND on for the sake of putting NAND on just
> because it's cheap is a false economy. Given it isn't replaceable, it
> would have to, IMO, offer very substantial performance benefits compared
> to the easily replaceable alternatives (i.e. SD/uS
On 04/11/11 17:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, David Given wrote:
[...]
>> Well, I know why *I* would get one: it's cheap.
>
> would you be interested in anything that has a higher bang-per-buck
> ratio? or just cheaper? (or
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...]
> and, why would _any_ free software developer buy one of these
> raspberry pi devices?
Well, I know why *I* would get one: it's cheap. Vastly cheaper than the
alternatives, and for a lot of people, cheapness beats Freeness. If the
blobs are available to
On 03/11/11 18:53, Wookey wrote:
[...]
> This caused me to note that Geexbox 2.0 has support from some ARM
> boards (and have images for pandaboard and Harmony). I'll try that on
> my panda forthwith (I was a big fan of geexbox 1.0 and used it for
> several years).
The new Raspberry Pi sounds idea
On 28/10/11 17:59, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
[...]
> Here the
> people that write the BSP cannot solve the problem and just implement
> their own solution to meet the deadline.
Just to expand on this: right now the BSPs are mostly written by
hardware manufacturers, and hardware manufacturers have a
On 16/10/11 09:58, Michael Hope wrote:
[...]
> The Genesi people are nice and supportive of open source. The Toshiba
> AC100 is well supported by a bunch of Ubuntu hackers. If you want
> really minimal, try the Ben NanoNote. It's open hardware as well but
> severely limited in I/O.
I'm really p
On 15/10/11 16:15, Hector Oron wrote:
[...]
> Right, firmware-ralink is 'non-free', debian-ports.org only has 'main'
> but being an arch all package I guess you could enable an official
> debian non-free repository in your sources.list
I thought it might be something like that; ta. However, adding
On 15/10/11 13:02, David Given wrote:
[...]
> But it does now appear to be working, although there are some oddities.
> Next stop, wireless.
For the record, wireless worked fine, although I did have to copy the
firmware-ralink package from my desktop machine to the AC100 (it doesn't
On 15/10/11 03:43, peter green wrote:
[...]
> If I were you I would just add it manually (using your PC)
Problem found: dpkg is actually in unreleased, and not in unstable, so
debootstrap couldn't find it. Also, debootstrap was dying in really
weird ways without producing any diagnostics; you have
So my shiny new AC100 laptop has arrived, and I'm trying to install
armhf Debian on it.
As per the instructions here:
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba/AC100
...I have done a foreign debootstrap from another machine, with the
following:
(On PC)
# cd /mnt
# debootstrap
On 19/08/11 21:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[...]
> /dev/sda:
> Timing cached reads: 512 MB in 2.00 seconds = 255.59 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 134 MB in 3.01 seconds = 44.49 MB/sec
>
> /dev/mmcblk0:
> Timing cached reads: 490 MB in 2.00 seconds = 244.49 MB/sec
> Timing buffer
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[...]
> I have debootstrapped debian armhf unstable onto a sata drive which I
> have mounted under the microsd running ubuntu. Certainly working on
> the sata is way faster than that crappy little microsd it came with.
Any chance you could run nbench
(http://www.tux.org/~m
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...]
> for volume units: i've spoken to the factory i'm in touch with, and
> they've put a ballpark figure on a similar board of an astonishing
> $35, only. hardware only: no case, no PSU. that's with the AMLogic
> Cortex A9. they must be supplying bucket-lo
On 14/08/11 17:20, Phil Endecott wrote:
[...]
>> other interfaces including some GPIO pins
>
> That is actually something that is annoyingly missing from the iMX53 board - a
> handful of signals on a sane connector that could be connected to switches and
> LEDs. In the past, I have resorted to us
On 13/08/11 14:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...]
> ok, right. continuing on the discussion of upcoming and/or available
> Cortex A9 systems, i heard back from one of the CPU manufacturers
> (can't say which one), and they are sampling a new CPU next month.
[...]
> if so, what would y
Gordan Bobic wrote:
[...]
> The overheating is muchly exaggerated. The white ones - same CPU/ARM,
> but no eSATA plumbed in (you can solder it on, though), have no fan in
> them. I have one, and it's regularly used for a few days' worth of
> compiling jobs at a time, and yes, it gets quite warm, bu
Jeremiah Foster wrote:
[...]
> I just have a "developers" model. Here's a link to a couple pictures of the
> machine I have FWIW;
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiah_foster/6021909246/
Seems to be locked --- when I try to view the image it prompts me for a
login.
[...]
> That may be the case
Jeremiah Foster wrote:
[...]
> Trimslice does have SATA. It is oddly placed under the board so it is hard to
> see and they put a small Sandisk SSD in the SATA slot. Looks like it is SATA
> 1, but I'd need to dig into the specs to be certain. You'll have to remove at
> least one of the panels to
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On 08/06/11 01:37, Phil Endecott wrote:
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> Don't buy it from Freescale; their website is unusable. There are two or
> three
> distributors who sell it, and their websites are not quite as awful. I got
> mine
> from Mouser for £111 inclusive of
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On 08/05/11 12:35, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB
Oo. Very nice. Cortex A8, 1GB RAM, SATA, ethernet, *and* reasonably
priced... if only it had an extra ethernet socket it'd be an
On 29/03/11 13:08, Wookey wrote:
[...]
> Personally I just couldn't bring myself to have a 24/7 server that
> used 25W+disk, no matter how cheap it is, because I know how
> unecessary that is, and I think energy consumption matters.
Don't forget that the 25W R3700 includes a hard drive, while the
On 28/03/11 05:57, Sander wrote:
[...]
> An OpenRD-Ultimate might be something for you:
> http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-35-openrd-ultimate.aspx
I see the price has come down --- they're now only about 250% the price
of a SheevaPlug... but yeah, one of these would be ideal. Lots of ports
On 26/03/11 17:07, Phil Endecott wrote:
[...]
> David, if you want to be "realistic", you'll find that in almost all cases
> small
> size, ARM, and even low performance are things that you should expect to pay a
> premium for. For fun you can try to factor in the reduction in your
> electricity
Hello,
I'm looking for some hardware to replace my elderly SheevaPlug house
server --- it's working very well, but there are ongoing niggling
problems with USB and storage, and I'd like something with more ports.
I'm very intrigued by the new Dreamplug, which looks ideal.
Unfortunately it's not c
On 24/03/11 23:26, Bryce Harrington wrote:
[...]
> I see this includes -vesa, although as Luke pointed out perhaps since
> it's an x86 bios function it is not needed on armel? It's a tiny, tiny
> driver so definitely no biggy to keep it in if there's any conceivable
> doubt that it might be needed
On 02/10/11 01:44, JK Scheinberg wrote:
[...]
> Yeah my SheevaPlug doesn't have eSATA, I have a USB SDD on it. It's pretty
> solid but does go offline every few weeks. I've been unable to determine why
> so far
Rumour has it that the Kirkwood USB chipset is a bit dodgy.
Certainly, I've had pro
On 03/02/11 19:33, Magnus Berg wrote:
> Last time I tried, I used Cacao in JIT mode to successfully run a Tomcat
> server with some apps running. It was way faster than OpenJDK's non JIT
> VM on a Qnap 219 running Debian.
>
> My Cacao is 0.99.3. The latest seems to be 0.99.4.
Okay, I did some ben
Does anyone know what the current state-of-the-art is with Java on ARM
(that plays nicely with Debian)?
My SheevaPlug-based server runs some Java servlets. Right now I'm using
openjdk in interpreted mode, which is reliable but dog slow and
incredibly memory hungry (right now on my server, the Java
On 30/08/10 11:08, John Winters wrote:
[...]
> If your problem is lack of memory or CPU grunt on the Slug then a
> SheevaPlug will probably fix it for you.
I use a SheevaPlug as my home server, running about a dozen concurrent
services (including driving all my email and serving my website). It
co
On 09/07/10 21:40, Paul Brook wrote:
[...]
> There are several variants of VFPv3. Some have the additional registers
> (typically the implementations that also have NEON), some do not. VFPv3 also
> introduces some new instructions, so even the variants with the restricted
> register file will no
On 2010-07-06 21:55, Loïc Minier wrote:
[...]
I would be a bit scared that this has a chance of getting out of date,
or be confusing because other ports might be v7 as well, or also
because this only reflects a subset of the ports' requirement (VFP
level for instance isn't reflected, such
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Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
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> The kernel can end up killing processes if there is not enough memory
> to satisfy a memory allocation request made by one of the processes in
> the system.
Yes, I'm aware of that --- I've been chasing this thing up fo
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Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
[...]
> When the code that's asking for more memory is running from atomic
> context, the system can't sleep to free up more memory.
>
> I.e., an atomic allocation is "Either give me the memory now or tell
> me you don't have
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Frode E. Moe wrote:
> Did anyone figure this one out? I'm getting these regularly on
> my Sheevaplug.
Unfortunately, no; I've been asking about this for years, both on the
NSLU2 and the SheevaPlug, but never really got much in the way of a
response.
Douglas Lopes Pereira wrote:
[...]
Uboot identifies the devices connected but does not recognize my USB
drive and get stuck.
I've found that u-boot's USB support is very unreliable, and it's pretty
much pot luck whether it will deign to talk to any given USB storage
device. I've also seen it cr
Rafal Czlonka wrote:
David Given wrote:
The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt
won't work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem
Worked fine here.
It's entirely possible they've fixed it. My system came with
/var/cach
.) Recommendations are to install Martin
Michlmayr's u-boot upgrade (which allows booting off SD card) and then
to put Debian on it...
I have a writeup here, although it's now a bit old and out of date:
http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug/
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Matthew Palmer wrote:
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>> Okay, now I'm just confused. Accorded to the linked docs,
>
> Which docs are these?
>
> I go from
> /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.26/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.gz
I was working from the link that Jason post
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Matthew Palmer wrote:
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> You really, *really* don't want to set your overcommit ratio to 95... you
> can very easily starve the kernel of memory (which, as you'd expect, it kind
> of a bad thing). I've had problems with any setting greater than 8
if apps successfully
allocate memory, then they can always access it?
(PS. Please don't cc me --- I don't need two copies of each message!)
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When my Sheevaplug has been under load, I've been occasionally been
getting swapper page allocation failures (monster kernel log attached).
What's particularly worrying about this is that the system's got a
gigabyte of swap, and the log claims that it
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
[...]
David: which kernel is that? 2.6.29 or 2.6.30?
2.6.30-rc8.
The ethernet widget in question is a 0bda:8150 RTL8150. I'm enclosing
the output from hw.gz.
BTW, I happened to run into an embedded systems engineer a little while
ago who had worked with Marvell CPU
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Hi,
I've recently been encountering a problem on my Sheevaplug home server.
It's currently set up as a router, using the built-in ethernet for
inside and a USB widget for outside. This has been running happily for
months --- indeed, I went away for fi
Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
Generally, I do leave the debug/console USB plugged in all the time.
Are you referring to plugging/unplugging the console USB when you say
"strange things" happen? Or plugging/unplugging the power connection?
My problem occurred when unplugging power -- I did didn't
Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
Anybody got a suggestion?
If all else fails you can hook up OpenOCD via USB and reprogram it using
the JTAG interface (/dev/ttyUSB0), so don't panic!
http://www.openplug.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_Up_OpenOCD_Under_Linux
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whelmed by demand. I wonder how many they sold?
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Does anyone know of a proper JRE with JIT for debian-arm? I'm going to
want to run servlets via jetty or something.
sun-jre seems to be Intel only, OpenJDK is purely interpreted, and Cacao
is still in sid and (apparently) really unstable. Is Kaffe still a
contender these days?
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page. Does that mean that it works now?
I tried the u-boot upgrade with much trepidation, and everything works
fine. Booting off SD is vastly faster than USB and avoids all the
horrible u-boot USB issues.
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e.g., do RAID5 on USB as the bandwidth falls through the floor after you
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Florent Fourcot wrote:
[...]
> I have tried this kernel and it's boot without problem. I'm very
> surprising by the new performance of my hard disks, it's really faster.
I hadn't noticed, but you're right; even the MMC card is faster (19MB/sec).
I'm
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* David Given [2009-05-27 10:14]:
(Doesn't Linux have a system call to allow kernel chain-loading?
Would this allow a basic kernel to be loaded from flash that then
invokes a kernel read from a file system elsewhere?)
Yes, it's called kexec.
Alas, it do
ing forward
to when boot-from-SD works reliably, as that will allow me to avoid the
issue completely.
(Doesn't Linux have a system call to allow kernel chain-loading? Would
this allow a basic kernel to be loaded from flash that then invokes a
kernel read from a file system elsewhere?)
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Amandeep Bhullar wrote:
[...]
> next it load it on mtdblock1 like this (my stsem looks for rootfs in
> mtdbl0ck1)
>
> cat emrootfs.jffs2 > /dev/mtdblock1
Have you erased mtdblock1 first? If you reprogram a flash device without
erasing it first really
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Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
> My first shivaplug arrived this morning. While I was waiting for it to
> arrive, I already purchased a USB hub, a 16GB USB stick (for main system
> residency), and a mess of 1GB sticks (for misc temporary stuff during
> inst
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Rickard Nilsson wrote:
[...]
> However, the process just stops after having uncompressed the
> kernel:
What are your bootargs? Have you told it you want it to use a serial
console (without which you'll get no output at all)?
I have:
console=ttyS0,11
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Steve Pirk wrote:
[...]
> Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only,
> I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is
> up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is
> als
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David Given wrote:
[...]
> Fedex say it's been shipped. Things are looking hopeful...
It arrived yesterday. I've done a decent write-up and some benchmarks:
http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug
Short summary: larger than you
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David Given wrote:
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> It's not *quite* blank verse, but it does at least look like I'm going
> to get something soon. I'll report back if I get the tracking number.
Fedex say it's been shipped. Things are lookin
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> Yes I have seen this notice, but the orders I and others have placed are well
> beyond a four week delivery timeframe.
I made my order on March 3, and emailed them earlier today about
delivery times (my US receiving address is going away soon). I
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