Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Mentovai
Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Is there even a need to produce an oversize image warning? I'm not aware of any other architecture that refuses to build over a certain size. x86 being the obvious exception, but that is different because it doesn't target any particular device, but a whole

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-12-04 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
Hi Mark, On 29/11/11 18:51, Dave Taht wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Mark Mentovai m...@moxienet.com wrote: Jonathan Bennett wrote: This patch seems like a really good idea for the ar71xx family. What sorts of problems are preventing this from being implemented? As small as it

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-12-04 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Mark Mentovai m...@moxienet.com wrote: Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Would you mind having another look at this patch as a priority, as it causes images larger than 8MB to FTBFS. While this obviously is not a problem for the WNDR3700, it is a problem for the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Mentovai
Jonathan Bennett wrote: This patch seems like a really good idea for the ar71xx family. What sorts of problems are preventing this from being implemented? As small as it sounds, an extra 192k would be really useful on quite a few routers. I don't know of any actual problems with the patch.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Mark Mentovai m...@moxienet.com wrote: Jonathan Bennett wrote: This patch seems like a really good idea for the ar71xx family. What sorts of problems are preventing this from being implemented? As small as it sounds, an extra 192k would be really useful on

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Mentovai
Dave Taht wrote: Awesome. However I'd like to somehow make for fully field-upgradable kernels for this device (how to do that?), and reserving 64k strikes me as too small to account for future growth. It doesn't reserve 64kB. It doesn't really reserve anything at all. There can be as little as

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-08-25 Thread Mark Mentovai
This replaces the fixed flash layout currently used on the WNDR3700 family with one whose mtd partition sizes are computed dynamically. Rather than reserving 1MB for the kernel regardless of its actual space requirements, this computes an appropriate size for the kernel, rounded up to a 64kB erase

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ar71xx: Reclaim unused space in WNDR3700 image

2011-08-25 Thread Dave Taht
Awesome. However I'd like to somehow make for fully field-upgradable kernels for this device (how to do that?), and reserving 64k strikes me as too small to account for future growth. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Mark Mentovai m...@moxienet.com wrote: This replaces the fixed flash layout