On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> sadly that doesnt give any details about the CPU at all (you need to > know the version of the ARM specification the CPU implements (i.e. > ubuntu only supports ARMv7 (cortex-a8) boards in lucid while it did > support v6 in karmic and v5 in jaunty, debian supports v4 across all > recent releases which will cause performance loss on newer ARM systems > but is compatible with more hardware) It appears to be ARMv5: http://my.opera.com/bhtooefr/blog/hp-t5325-thin-client-risc-os-and-maybe-combining-the-two-or-just-running-linu Here's some yummies from /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg: Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l) Hardware : Feroceon-KW Marvell Development Board (LSP Version KW_LSP_4.2.7_patch21_with_rx_desc_tuned)-- OpenRD-Base Soc: 88F6281 A0 LE > ARM systems cant use PXE in any form (PXE is a proprietary protocol > developed by intel) you usually have a bootloader in flash on the ARM > board that you need to configure though a serial console. There's a 4-pin header on the board. Could be interesting. > though normally all bootloaders used under ARM support netboot many ARM > manufacturers havent discovered the concept of an initramfs (which is > essential for LTSP booting) so you will likely have to find out how to > configure the bootloader (load address in RAM, space needed etc) to make > use of the initrd/initramfs file (usually this is not not documented > anywhere, the ubuntu ARM port might give you some hints here though > since all ARM boards ubuntu supports use initramfs'es but YMMV) Sounds ugly. > if your bootloader is configured once to use bootp (dhcp usually > provides backwards compatible bootp support) it will work similar to > etherboot, some bootloaders need to have the server IP hardcoded so that > you need to change that on all clients once the server changes but > beyond that it should not be much different from using etherboot on x86. Unfortunately I haven't even found a bootloader yet, and I see no evidence of a netboot or bootp facility. On the bright side, I have figured out how to USB-boot this thing, so I'll play with the Jaunty ARM port for a while. If anybody has any more ideas I would love to hear them. This machine is pretty much for experimental purposes, so I'm curious to see what I might try to get ltsp going on it. Thanks for the pointers, Oli. db ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
