On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:19:41AM +0800, Sandy Harris wrote: > Our main target is plug computers and the ideal > target something like Dreamplug: > http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx
While I agree that "something like the Dreamplug" is the right way to go, the Dreamplug itself is not quite ideal at present. Here's what I learned playing with one today: The boot loader preloaded identifies itself as U-Boot 2011.06-02334-g8f495d9-dirty (Mar 01 2011 - 06:57:05) This is GPL'd software but I cannot find the sources. I tried Debian's u-boot for the Guruplug. It complained about the lack of NAND, and was unaware of the Dreamplug's meg of SPI flash; this was expected and should be easily correctable. What I didn't expect was that it wouldn't cope with the Dreamplug's USB, and this means that I couldn't boot off of the internal microSD card. I did not attempt to boot off of the network or eSATA. Next I attempted to use the factory U-Boot to boot the Debian squeeze kernel, assuming that this would work as well. It did not. It seems to have frozen right after [ 0.266395] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled [ 0.266845] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A [ 0.577409] console [ttyS0] enabled The third problem is the same as with the Guruplug; there appears to be no free software available to control the WiFi device in Master/AP mode. For more information see http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00064.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00081.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00082.html I hope that someone in the supply chain can correct these issues, because I consider being able to run a full Debian stack on one to be not just a nicety but an imperative. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
