Re: Kernel 3.2.2 on WD Sharespace

2012-02-21 Thread David Hicks
setenv machid 3140 Oh, does that work? That would be handy and simpler than the way I've been doing it. I should introduce myself - I'm the other guy mentioned in the head of this thread. Really should have got around to publishing the sharespace additions I made to the orion5x stuff back in

Re: Kernel 3.2.2 on WD Sharespace

2012-02-21 Thread David Hicks
and several requests for comment clears which says to me 'no objection'. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:21 AM, David Hicks d...@nastylittlehorse.netwrote: setenv machid 3140 Oh, does that work? That would be handy and simpler than the way I've been doing it. I should introduce myself - I'm

Re: Debian ARM in Western Digital Sharespace

2013-10-15 Thread David Hicks
, there is no real performance increase available here. You can get it to be a fully fledged headless server, but you can't get it to go a lot faster in terms of data transfer etc. The bottleneck seems to be the CPU. David Hicks. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:34 AM, may...@maykel.sytes.net wrote: Hi, before

armel kernel 3.10.11 on orion5x - CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS needed? [WD Sharespace related]

2013-10-22 Thread David Hicks
start without calling orion5x_pci_disable() before pci_common_init(), which only a couple of the other boards need, so maybe it is just weird... Cheers, David Hicks. Boot output from startup without CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS below (yes my main drive is labelled 'turnip

Re: armel kernel 3.10.11 on orion5x - CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS needed? [WD Sharespace related]

2013-10-22 Thread David Hicks
I could use the same kernel config as debian orion5x kernels for 2.6.32, 3.1.8 and 3.2.51 kernels, and 3.2.51 has CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS set. For 3.10 and (kernel.org sourced) 3.11 I need the flag set or I get the described issue. So I don't *think* the sharespace bootloader does anything weird because

Re: Debian arm on WD Sharespace

2013-11-17 Thread David Hicks
a debian installer for it yet, just a kernel and a couple of scripts. Totally understand if you don't because it will be some work. David Hicks d...@nastylittlehorse.net *(in theory you may be able to mess with the variables by messing with the NOR that stores the uboot variables directly from

Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-16 Thread David Hicks
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 8:42 AM, David Hicks d...@nastylittlehorse.netwrote: I'm not exactly the foremost expert on this but ... my understanding

Re: Boot time speed up

2014-04-17 Thread David Hicks
divyaenginee...@gmail.com wrote: Any other way of cutting down boot time? Regards, Divya Subramanian On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:10 PM, David Hicks d...@nastylittlehorse.netwrote: The initramfs isn't the source of the slowdown, unless you have a really huge one. It could be a part

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

Re: sheeva plug usb install

2010-11-10 Thread David Hicks
Hi there, It's a while since I've played with my sheevaplug, but I'm all too familiar with the boot sequence at the moment so hopefully I'll be able to give you something useful here... It looks like getty isn't running. Plug the memory stick into another machine and open up the /etc/inittab and

Re: Unidentified subject!

2011-01-02 Thread David Hicks
I got myself a cheap, small no-name USB thumb drive in a tech mall in Singapore about 4/5 years ago. I used it as the main and swap disk for and NSLU2 for over three years with no problems at all. It was slow as treacle for anything that required disk access, though the machine served brilliantly