Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Bastian Bittorf
* Brian J. Murrell br...@interlinx.bc.ca [21.01.2009 16:15]: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:41 +0100, Bastian Bittorf wrote: KISS! Heh. KISS would have been leaving the config in the NVRAM as it was intended. :-) only very few computersystems have NVRAM - thats why UCI was invented Maybe

[OpenWrt-Devel] htpdate-1.0.4 uClibc-0.9.30 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://www.mail-archive.com/ucl...@uclibc.org/msg02985.html Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis alex at ozo.com --- htpdate-1.0.4/htpdate.c.orig2009-01-22 11:20:54.0 +0200 +++ htpdate-1.0.4/htpdate.c 2009-01-22 11:18:55.0 +0200 @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ /*

[OpenWrt-Devel] update shorwall shell common to 4.2.4

2009-01-22 Thread Puchu
greets puchu Index: feeds/packages/net/shorewall-common/Makefile === --- feeds/packages/net/shorewall-common/Makefile(Revision 14144) +++

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:39 +0100, Bastian Bittorf wrote: only very few computersystems have NVRAM s/computersystems/[wireless] routers/ ? OpenWRT is targeted at [wireless] routers. thats why UCI was invented I would have suggested some kind of on disk nvram emulation for such non-nvram

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Barth
thats why UCI was invented I would have suggested some kind of on disk nvram emulation for such non-nvram capable systems so that the nvram paradigm remains the same for nvram capable systems and is emulated for others that have, say, persistent disk. Why emulate a 1 dimensional limited

[OpenWrt-Devel] linux-2.6.23 linux/time.h gcc-4.3 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://acassis.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/erro-compilando-kernel-2622-no-opensuse11-gcc-431 Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis alex at ozo.com --- linux-2.6.23.17/include/linux/time.h.orig 2009-01-22 23:18:04.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23.17/include/linux/time.h2009-01-22

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
I disagree because that would create an unwanted relationship between ipkg and sysupgrade and also will result in having old configuration files if new versions of packages also have updated configuration files. Why would you not want such a relationship. [io]pkg's conffiles are meant to

[OpenWrt-Devel] yaffs 2.6.28.1 patch

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=484856 Signed-off-by: Alexandros C. Couloumbis alex at ozo.com --- linux-2.6.28.1/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_fs.c.orig2009-01-22 23:47:36.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.28.1/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_fs.c 2009-01-22 23:48:20.0 +0200 @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@

[OpenWrt-Devel] chaostables need update for 2.6.28.x

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
chaostables are obsolete for some time now as they have been merged into xtables-addons https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4431 ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel

[OpenWrt-Devel] xt_TARPIT patch needs update for 2.6.28.x kernel

2009-01-22 Thread Alexandros C. Couloumbis
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4432 ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Baker
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Steven Barth wrote: Why emulate a 1 dimensional limited configuration system for all platforms, with a maximum capacity of 32kiB just because ONLY some old broadcom based routers use it? Right. NVRAM was usually a 32k block of consecutive name=value

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] rebooting from a kernel on external storage

2009-01-22 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I wonder what the feasibility is of instead of putting a linux kernel in the kernel portion of the flash image and essentially what's an initrd in the filesystem portion (because remember, all the / in the flash image does for me is mount USB storage on /), putting