Guys, what's the expectancy of this patch to be committed? If there is anything more I could do, please let me know.
----- Original Message ---- > From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:55:27 PM > Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Edimax BR6104KP profile with rootfs on a USB > drive > > The Edimax BR6104KP router (also available as > Omnima Embedded Controller from http://www.omnima.co.uk/ > with JTAG and serial already soldered in) has only 2MB > onboard flash, which is too small for any usable Linux setup. > The board has also two USB1.1 interfaces, and this patch introduces > a new profile that builds two images: the flash image containing > the LZMA loader and the kernel (less than 900KB), and a > tar.gz archive of the root filesystem. The kernel looks to mount > the rootfs as ext3 or ext2 on /dev/sda1. > > The patches for include/image.mk and include/kernel-defaults.mk > extend the existing functionality and should not hurt any existing > profile. > > To use the new profile, choose in menuconfig: > Target System: Infineon/ADMtek ADM5120 [2.6] > Target Profile: Edimax BR-6104KP (USB Root FS) > > The patch was tested, and by default it supports the onboard switch and > the USB storage. Other kernel modules should function as well. > > The next step will be to utilize the unused space in the onboard flash > to store the persistent configuration, so that updating the rootfs would > not hurt it. > > A copy of the patch is available at > http://torrus.org/openwrt.trunk.13018.br6104kp-usbroot.20081021.patch > It should work against the SVN trunk at revision 13018 > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Sinyagin _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
