Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Wood
Jerry Van Baren wrote: Scott Wood wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation takes the blob as a boot parameter and

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Wood
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation takes the blob as a boot parameter and passes it along to the kernel after doing

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-21 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Other than that quibble, I agree that burning the blob into the firmware so that the firmware must be recompiled and reburned to change the blob is very undesirable. I thought the device tree was *supposed* to be an interface between the firmware and the kernel? What if the firmware produces

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation takes the blob as a boot parameter and passes it along to the kernel

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-21 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:54:58PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: Scott Wood wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-14 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an example of what I feared when people first got enthusiastic about the idea of including flattened device trees in firmwares. The tree has not, AFAIK, been past

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-14 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:17:36AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an example of what I feared when people first got enthusiastic about the idea of including

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-13 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Grant Likely wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:26:32PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: Does anyone on this list have contacts with the makers of this board? Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-08 Thread Grant Likely
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:26:32PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: Does anyone on this list have contacts with the makers of this board? Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an example of what I feared

Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-07 Thread David Gibson
Does anyone on this list have contacts with the makers of this board? Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an example of what I feared when people first got enthusiastic about the idea of including