Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
On 09/06/2012 06:04 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 6 September 2012 09:25, Cédric VINCENT cedric.vinc...@gmail.com wrote: For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any guest kernel since all privileged operations are redirected to the host one. You assume that everybody uses Linux on PC as a host. If you use Windows for example you need full system emulation. Is this a joke? -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer
On 07/01/2012 06:25 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 1 July 2012 08:42, Davidelouigi...@yahoo.it wrote: Maybe the version of libflashplayer.so is incompatible with firefox 13 or maybe there is some other issue with the mesa package on current. Am I missing something? While modern Android OS may share the same kernel with a traditional Linux distro, its runtime library is not binary compatible with the GNU libraries. As the flash plugin is not available in source code I don't see why people can assume one can just drop libflashplayer.so for Android and expect it to work and even if it did you'd open a can of worms. The android system does not use glibc. It uses a system called Bionic. It is essentially glibc trimmed down. So if it works on Bionic it should work on glibc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_%28software%29 Hope this helps. John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?
On 02/24/2012 10:47 AM, David Madden wrote: Thanks for the replies info. (For some reason, it doesn't look like I'm getting digests, so I just saw them in the web archives.) I've had luck building a 3.2.6 kernel with vanilla sources and a bit of .config file tweaking. My current config is at: http://www.mersenne.com/downloads/GuruPlug-config.gz I am trying your config to see if I can get a booted kernel. I tried re-compiling what comes with armedslack and it failed to boot again. So re-compiling again... Maybe tomorrow I can boot 3.2.6 John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?
On 02/24/2012 10:47 AM, David Madden wrote: Still no WiFi, but I'll try John's files patches tonight. Lemme know if you run into any issues, I'll fix em right up. I havent run on a 3.2 kernel yet. Just 3.1 Good Luck John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?
On 02/20/2012 01:49 PM, David Madden wrote: Hi, I've been working on customizing a GuruPlug to do some specific tasks on my home network. I've tried installing Slackware Debian (both successful) but I haven't been able to build a functional kernel or get wireless running. So, I wonder: * How much of a hassle is it to get from a vanilla kernel tree to a bootable uImage? (I've gotten clean compiles using the config from /boot/config-whatever, but it hangs on boot after Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.) * Are the Marvell wireless drivers tools integrated into the kernel / distro, or is it still an add external software project? It is NOT a part of armedslack. I have all the files needed (firmware / boot scripts / binaries + source) to run an access point here: http://juanisan.homeip.net/guruplug/uap-slackware/ The drivers are NOT a part of the armedslack kernel and need to be rolled in by hand. A patch for armedslack is here: http://juanisan.homeip.net/guruplug/JJO-Marvell-Libertas-8688-AP-FULLPATCH-up-to-3.1.2.patch (I'm fiddling with this in the first place, rather than going with a full Slackware or Debian install, because I'd like to put together a minimal system that fits in the 512MB NAND Flash, so my USB disk can be all data.) That shouldnt be a problem but you will need to add in UBIFS or whatever your root fs is into the kernel as the guruplug MTD layout doesnt have a partition for an initrd. hope this helps John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?
On 02/23/2012 03:09 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: http://juanisan.homeip.net/guruplug/JJO-Marvell-Libertas-8688-AP-FULLPATCH-up-to-3.1.2.patch I remember you mentioning this before. What would need to happen to make this patch be in the upstream kernel? I consulted the libertas driver author. It was too custom somehow. He made it sound like it could never make it into the mainstream kernel. They are attempting to make the current driver more generic to cover more of the chipsets and bus access methods, but it will probably be a while before this chipset gets looked at. I just patch what they had to work with all the current kernel changes. Till then it remains a custom driver. I could make a package that could match the kernel_kirkwood-3.x.x-arm-1.tgz but I would have to make one every time you changed your kernel. Add a separate package for the binaries, libs, scripts that dont change. This way there would be nothing to compile for the end user, but how important is it? John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] SOLVED - ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug
On 02/10/2012 05:00 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: I had one problem after following the instructions in INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT. I created a FAT16 /boot partition as Stuart suggests in the documentation and I don't suggest FAT - I suggest ext2, for the reason you mention - FAT doesn't support symlinks, and the u-boot for the Sheevas and OpenRD client only support ext2. Try FAT. Compare to ext2. When you see the difference, enjoy ext. Upgrade manually. Only my Sheevas work well with FAT. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,1893 On Feb 9, 2012 10:20 AM, Jim Hammack hamm...@gotslack.org wrote: Davide, I'm not sure what you mean by erasing the partition. I am using these commands taken from INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT: setenv arcNumber 2659 setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv ipaddr 192.168.2.1 setenv serverip 192.168.2.7 saveenv reset usb start tftpboot 0x0110 armedslack-13.37/uinitrd-kirkwood.img tftpboot 0x0080 armedslack-13.37/uImage-kirkwood setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 nodhcp kbd=us root=/dev/ram rw bootm 0x0080 0x0110 *** install armedslack and reboot *** setenv bootargs_console console=ttyS0,115200 setenv bootargs_root 'root=/dev/sda3 waitforroot=10 rootfs=ext4' setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_slk ; reset' setenv bootcmd_slk 'usb start;ext2load usb 0:1 0x0110 /uinitrd-kirkwood;ext2load usb 0:1 0x0080 /uImage-kirkwood;bootm 0x0080 0x0110' setenv ethaddr F0:AD:4E:00:E5:BD setenv eth1addr F0:AD:4E:00:E5:BE saveenv reset Thanks, Jim On 02/09/2012 02:38 AM, Davide wrote: If you can boot the image via tftp but subsequently not from flash then maybe it war not flashed correctly. Are you erasing partition before writing kernel to it ? -- *Da:* Jim Hammack hamm...@gotslack.org hamm...@gotslack.org *A:* armedslack@lists.armedslack.org *Inviato:* Giovedì 9 Febbraio 2012 3:36 *Oggetto:* Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug Brennan, Thanks for the suggestion, but I downloaded the files again and made sure they were binary transfers, and still no luck. I also downloaded armedslack-current (I had the original armedslack-13.37 that I used on my sheevaplug) but still no change. I'm confused because the kernel boots after the initial tftpboot and I can install software, configure the system, etc., but when I try to reboot the system hangs. Jim On 02/06/2012 08:32 PM, Brennan Newman wrote: Jim, I had this same issue and it was driving me crazy, it is a simple fix (at least for me). Simply re-download the kernel images and make sure that you are transferring it over in binary. I had used Filezilla to get my install and it was set to transfer all files in ascii by default which according to many people in the world today mangles binary files pretty badly. Hope this helps. Brennan On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Jim Hammack hamm...@gotslack.org wrote: I've been trying to install ARMedslack on my Dreamplug (ser: 1148-XX) by following Stuart's excellent instructions in INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT, but have been unable to get the system to boot. I believe it is due to a problem with my u-boot which I scrambled earlier. I have been able to find only one version of u-boot that will run on this machine (the guruplug version from http://www.armedslack.org/maint_kirkwooduboot loads but hangs after a 'reset'). This one works: Marvell version U-Boot 2011.03-00012-g1a93b51-dirty-pingtoo-v1.2 (Jun 15 2011 - 22:44:57) Marvell-DreamPlug armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.3, pie-0.4.5) 4.4.4 GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 I am following Stuart's instructions with two exceptions: 1. I am using dream-2.6.38.4-uImage (renamed uImage-kirkwood) from with-linux instead of uImage-kirkwood from the distribution due to a known problem with uImage-kirkwood on the Dreamplug. ( http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-August/000978.html) 2. I am using a fat16 boot partition rather that the ext2 partition Stuart uses in his documentation, so I have changed all references to ext2load to fatload in the bootcmd The system loads uinitrd-kirkwood okay, then loads uImage-kirkwood (which is really dream-2.6.38.4-uImage), but hangs after: Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. I don't think this is the problem, but does anyone see any problems with my u-boot variables? Also, I've read that newer Dreamplugs (#114 and later) have some differences from the earlier version. Could this be why the majority of u-boot versions I've found do not run on this machine? Any ideas on where I can find a suitable u-boot? I tried the version referenced here: (http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1977.0) but that version hangs also. Any input is appreciated! Thanks, Jim printenv and boot details follow: Marvell printenv arcNumber=2659 baudrate=115200 bootargs_console=console=ttyS0,115200 bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda3 waitforroot=10 rootfs=ext4 bootcmd=setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_slk ; reset bootcmd_slk=usb start;fatload usb 0:1 0x0110 /uinitrd-kirkwood;fatload usb 0:1 0x0080 /uImage-kirkwood;bootm
[ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation
Stuart, I notice that the 256M memory limitation still exists in the qemu 1.0 latest release yet google's android qemu variant can go well above. If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... Wouldnt that still be faster? I havent tried this yet. I was wondering if you had. THanks John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] qemu-network-tun.sh modified script
On 04/29/2011 04:06 AM, Davide wrote:
If anyone else finds this handy this works with dhcp client on both host and
guest and also gets rid of all rc.local requirements.
On the guest os you will need to config interface once system is up (static or
via dhcp)
Needs fixing for static ip reconfiguration/rerouting on host system after
bridge creation.
I apologize for my non standard indentation ...
Also if anyone cares, I wrote a script like that over a year ago to lanuch a
private network for many VMs (all Linux distros - many versions) to compile
software for a company I was at. It is configured a private network so some
assembly is required. But I made most of it configurable up top so it could be
on a public adapter. I developed it on Slack (of course) then deployed it to a
Suse production box. I had set up NFS on the host with the source code. The
source would get copied to its own branch for the machine it was compiling for,
fire up the VM, compile over NFS, create package on NFS host
(rpm/tgz/txz/deb/etc), then die, rinse and repeat.
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop qemu's private network
# Revised: 12/16/2009 JJO
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: qemunet
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Description: Start the qemu private network
### END INIT INFO
ETHIP=10.10.10.1
GATEWAY=
ETHBC=10.10.10.255
BRIDGE=br0
ETH=dummy0
TAP=tap0
# A little SuSE sanity check
[ -f /etc/SuSE-release ] /sbin/rmmod dummy0 /dev/null 21
# Start the qemu private network
qemunet_start() {
# Make sure the qemu private network isnt already running
PROBLEM=FALSE
for IF in $ETH $TAP $BRIDGE; do
/sbin/ifconfig | grep $IF /dev/null 21
[ $? = 0 ] PROBLEM=TRUE
done
if [ $PROBLEM = TRUE ]; then
echo All or part of the qemu private network is already running!
echo Cowardly refusing to start it again! BYE!
exit 1
fi
echo Starting the qemu private network...
# Make sure the kernel module is loaded
/sbin/lsmod | grep dummy /dev/null 21
[ $? = 1 ] /sbin/modprobe dummy
# First take interface down, then bring it up with IP 0.0.0.0
/sbin/ifconfig $ETH down
/sbin/ifconfig $ETH 0.0.0.0 promisc up
# Bring up the tap device (name specified as first argument, by QEMU)
/usr/sbin/openvpn --mktun --dev $TAP
/sbin/ifconfig $TAP 0.0.0.0 promisc up
# create the bridge between eth0 and the tap device
/sbin/brctl addbr $BRIDGE
/sbin/brctl addif $BRIDGE $ETH
/sbin/brctl addif $BRIDGE $TAP
# only a single bridge so loops are not possible, turn off spanning tree
protocol
/sbin/brctl stp $BRIDGE off
# Bring up the bridge with ETHIP and add the default route
/sbin/ifconfig br0 $ETHIP netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast $ETHBC
[ -n $GATEWAY ] /sbin/route add default gw $GATEWAY
}
# Stop the qemu private network
qemunet_stop() {
echo Stopping the qemu private network...
# Bring down interface and br0
/sbin/ifconfig $ETH down
/sbin/ifconfig $BRIDGE down
/sbin/rmmod dummy
# Delete the bridge
/sbin/brctl delbr $BRIDGE
# delete the tap device
/usr/sbin/openvpn --rmtun --dev $TAP
}
# Restart the qemu private network
qemunet_restart() {
qemunet_stop
sleep 1
qemunet_start
}
# Check if the qemu private network is up and running
qemunet_status() {
echo -n Checking the qemu private network:
# Check the qemu private inetwork
for IF in $ETH $TAP $BRIDGE; do
/sbin/ifconfig | grep $IF /dev/null 21
if [ $? = 1 ]; then
echo -n $IF is down
else
echo -n $IF is up
fi
if [ $IF = $BRIDGE ]; then
echo .
else
echo -n ,
fi
done
}
case $1 in
'start') qemunet_start ;;
'stop') qemunet_stop ;;
'restart') qemunet_restart ;;
'status') qemunet_status ;;
*) echo usage $0 start|stop|restart|status
esac
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Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar
On 01/26/2011 08:25 PM, Rich wrote: The dockstar led is controlled by uboot and armedSlack's kernel doesn't know how to control it. I'd be willing to bet it is controlled by standard kernel settings. I control my guruplug's LEDs in /sys/class/leds Take a peek -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Problem with Linux 2.6.36.3 packages
On 01/21/2011 08:48 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: shouldnt have to DD the whole disk as zero just the first few blocks.. e what i tried at least for a few other problems... I know - but mdadm was still taking /dev/sda even *without* partitions. I'm guessing somehow, somewhere, there was some residue from when the disc may have been in a raid configuration somewhere on another system from where the disc originated (I have a collection of old discs from a variety of places where I used to be a sysadmin). *shrug* You should write to the mdadm writers as that is really weird . I would hav zeroed and started from there. There are asking for failure! -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline
On 01/03/2011 02:06 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: Since officially at the moment, Slackware ARM supports systems which have an ARMv5t minimum CPU, I am thinking of changing the baseline target CPU to be armv5t, rather than armv4t as it is at the moment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture Has a nice chart of what is out there with those processors. This would block out that little Zipit Wireless Messenger. My GP2X would be out too. But I'd never be installing Slackware on that. 64M RAM and 64M flash. Very custom device. http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/GP2X I wouldn't be upset if the base hardware were bumped up. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline
On 01/04/2011 06:50 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: This would block out that little Zipit Wireless Messenger. It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as far as I can tell. Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a 940T co-processor) -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline
On 01/04/2011 07:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as far as I can tell. Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a 940T co-processor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_%28Z2%29 So this must be a newer version? Even this version with 32MB RAM isn't suitable. I don't even think Slackware on x86 can really run reliably in 32MB of RAM. So I'm not exactly concerned about this device :) Dunno. I went off the entry in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture Which says ARM720T. must be wrong. I have a 386 40mhz AMD with a 387 coprocessor (ISA SCSI 9gb Seagate / 32MB Ram - huge for the day) in storage. Would love to test that theory... But another year maybe ;-) -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline
On 01/04/2011 07:43 AM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: I like Armed and I like it running on my small device;) So if the gain from changing from v4 to v5 isn't really worth, then I prefer it staying v4 (my processor is arm920t). What do you run it on and what do you run? I loved my GP2X but I couldnt conceive running armedslack. It was extremely small and custom. Like alot of the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players I had seen back then. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline
On 01/04/2011 08:38 AM, Giovanni wrote: What about Openmoko FreeRunner? regards giovanni Google is your friend http://www.google.com/search?q=openmoko+freerunner+processor * 400/500 MHz Samsung 2442B Processor/SOC (400 minimum, ARM920T core, ARMv4T) * Unbrickable dual Boot code in NAND FLASH and 2MB NOR FLASH * 128 MB SDRAM total, 64 MB CPU internal, 64 MB external * 256MB NAND Flash MCP package. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] KDE fails in -current
On 12/19/2010 07:15 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: I just upgraded my guruplug to -current from a previous -current I've tried this with x11vnc - yep, it's pretty broken isn't it! I think it might be because of the new mesa, so I'm going to have a play around with that now. Let me know when you have a new version to test, I'll be at the top! Reverted back to 13.1 last night (QT, XZ, All KDE, etc, etc). Thanks O -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
[ARMedslack] KDE fails in -current
... KCrash: Application 'drkonqi' crashing... kcminit(26403)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: libkcminit_nsplugins.so kcminit(26403)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: libkcm_emoticons.so KCrash: Application 'drkonqi' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KAccessApp::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance() Application::crashHandler() called with signal 11; recent crashes: 6 KCrash: Application 'kwin' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 26438, errno = 11 KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/krunner from kdeinit kdeinit4: (krunner /usr/bin/krunner) Pipe closed unexpectedlykdeinit4: Pipe closed unexpectedly: Resource temporarily unavailable KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/krunner directly KCrash: Application 'krunner' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit kdeinit4: (drkonqi /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi) Pipe closed unexpectedlykdeinit4: Pipe closed unexpectedly: No such file or directory KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly If I try to launch just one app I get this: r...@guruslack:/usr/adm/packages# export DISPLAY=mrlinux:0 r...@guruslack:/usr/adm/packages# cd r...@guruslack:~# ktorrent QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method kt::App::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance() Warning: QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 15 and type 'Read', disabling... KCrash: Application 'ktorrent' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/root/.kde/socket-guruslack/kdeinit4_mrlinux_0 Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly r...@guruslack:~# KCrash: Application 'drkonqi' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/root/.kde/socket-guruslack/kdeinit4_mrlinux_0 Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly KCrash: Application 'drkonqi' crashing... -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Unable to login (armedslack 13.1 + beagleboard)
/etc/securetty ? ** This message has been delivered via a Google Android ** On Dec 5, 2010 4:36 PM, Carlo Caione carlo.cai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is pretty strange (for me). The problem is that my armedslack on beagleboard xM rev.A doesn't allow me to login (using pass: root, password: password). Even more strange is that I cannot access even after I modified the /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd files (resetting the root password). Here the full log: http://pastebin.com/gFfXfrTT Any idea? Thank you, -- Carlo Caione ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug ServerPlus
Oh my problems were only with the GuruPlug as far as ext booting is concerned. Never with the Sheeva plug. And I do what Stuart says and maintain the /boot manually since FAT doesn't handle sym-links. ** This message has been delivered via a Google Android ** On Nov 29, 2010 9:57 AM, blair.hoddin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to say that my experience was it booting no problem from the sheevaplug. Nothing but problems with the guruplug... I'm starting to think its a lost cause. _B Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Stu... On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: You are booting from ext. It is HIDEOUSLY slow. I make... ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
[ARMedslack] NFS Kernel panic
d2a28 9a0 [ 1841.585215] fe60: df68 c02a0624 c040 bf48e850 00c0 c040cf04 1 000 c003be00 [ 1841.593438] fe80: df842b60 c0740fc0 dfddfedc c003c8d8 d290b 804 1000 [ 1841.601661] fea0: c12577fc d2a289a0 df68 0038 3000 00011 f68 bf48e9a8 [ 1841.609884] fec0: c040 de6582c8 c12577f8 de128 000 df29c204 [ 1841.618107] fee0: c12577fc bf4ad648 bf49105c fe00 bf48eb94 a 158 0013 [ 1841.626330] ff00: dfddff28 c12577f8 de128000 df29c204 de128340 f e00 bf48c9a4 [ 1841.634553] ff20: df29c204 df29c204 c12577f8 bf4ad648 0001 bf491 05c fe00 [ 1841.642777] ff40: bf489f98 df29c204 a013 df29c204 df29c 24c bf491794 [ 1841.650999] ff60: df29c204 dfdde000 dfdd38c0 c0412d60 df29c25c df29c258 bf491 938 [ 1841.659222] ff80: dfdd38c8 c005bc90 df842 b60 c005fcb4 [ 1841.667445] ffa0: dfddffa0 dfddffa0 dfdd38c0 c1361e98 dfddffd4 c005ba88 dfdd3 8c0 [ 1841.675667] ffc0: c005f848 dfddf fd8 dfddffd8 [ 1841.683890] ffe0: c0028a74 e1a07 000 e1a04008 [ 1841.692114] Code: e3e0400d e59b5004 (e5854000) [ 1841.715455] ---[ end trace 9025e4e6bf91ac72 ]--- At this point I log into the plug and do a df and it will hang the session r...@guruslack:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 7724692 3944836 3387464 54% / /dev/sdb132720 9574 23146 30% /boot tmpfs 257672 0257672 0% /dev/shm /dev/ubi0_0 473324190260283064 41% /mnt/debian I unplug and replugin the Guru each time or breakSbreakUbreakB on the console. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
[ARMedslack] Ktorrent keeps crashing with sig 11
I am not sure why this is happening. What can I provide to help? I disabled all the plugins to try to speed up processing and reduce the likelihood of them producing a problem. It has helped with the sluggishness alot! But I leave it unattended and it still crashes once in a while. This is from -current on my guruplug running from the micro SD with that uboot I compiled up. BUT using 2.6.33.5-kirkwood from 13.1 because of the missing Access Point module in -current. It doesn't happen alot. But it does happen enough to be a concern. Thanks in advance, Johnny O -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current
and it doesnt crash at all... A few days later, just crashes on an open and repeat the cycle. This is the first time (with -current) it crashed while downloading unattended. Keeping an eye on this. When it crashes I get the KDE dialog box telling me why it crashed and if I want to restart the application. I just click restart then close. I NEED all of this to get my fix of Top Gear, Torchwood, Dr. Who and Spooks afterall :-P Go GuruPlug! GO! -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current
On 10/08/2010 04:40 AM, Jim Hawkins wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: On 10/08/2010 03:19 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: I know Jim on this list has received his guruplug a week ago, and they've added a whopping fan to it which makes itself known in the room. Perhaps you shoud send yours back for a swap. Oh I have been following the forums and been in contact with Global Scale and know all about that little 20mm x 20mm x 6mm fan they added that is apparently quite noisy. I guess I should have said BAD BAD GLOBAL SCALE! It sounds like a hair dryer. YUCK! Yeah I was googling alot last night about a replacement fan that might be quieter but not alot in that extremely small form factor. Still looking. And waiting for Global Scale to let me know when and how to get my plug fixed. They just keep telling me they will contact me. From what I follow, there apparently are NO sources available to this uaputl program and I am VERY dubious of this. I have also read that there are NO access controls and that you DONT have to be root to change the SSID or any other access point configurations with this utility and the way it talks to the kernel driver. I dont like it but it is what I have to use. I've not looked at it, but source is available from the bottom of this page: http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_GuruPlug_to_be_a_WiFi_Access_Point Cheers, Jim This is what I have been looking for for a LONG TIME Thank you Now I want to look at it and see what kind of security it has, etc.. and compile my own and make sure this works! THANKS! Johnny O -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
[ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current
To make a long story . . . long . . . I got my recompiled u-boot to recognize the micro SD card slot and boot off of it. So instead of running my GuruPlug from a USB dongle with a 4 GB SD card I bought an 8gb micro to run the system. So I am re-installing and testing with the latest stuff! I can boot from USB and now the micro SD onboard. The patch to u-boot changed the way in which the onboard device sorted out LUN access and now it shows up properly and now I can boot off the onboard micro SD card as there are really 2 devices there with only one physically present. http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1642.30 I run X windows from the Guru to my main Linux machine as display :2. :1 is for my second X display for World of Warcraft. :0 is my Slack KDE desktop. I only have a single core CPU on my desktop. I wanted to offload my Bittorrents off to the GuruPlug that also runs my wifi network for my android phone and occasionally other friends laptops, etc. It had been helping ALOT and working GREAT with 13.1 armedslack running Ktorrent remote NFSed to my main system saving all the data. So I run the entire KDE desktop from the Guru every day displaying on my desktop PC. I cannot run either of the dual gigabit ports on the GuruPlug because of the known overheating/rebooting issues. (BAD BAD MARVELL!) I have to plug in a USB/ethernet to get me network access. It's sad, but it works. I so wish Marvell could fix the overheating issue so I could remove all this dangling crap! http://mrlinux.homelinux.com/guruplug/myguru.jpg I ran into an issue with the kernel in -current. It seems the guru kernel patches to include the wireless AP functionality are missing. I cannot bring up the uap8xxx driver. Reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00081.html r...@guruslack:/mnt/memory/usr/src/linux# modprobe uap8xxx FATAL: Module uap8xxx not found. r...@guruslack:/mnt/memory/usr/src/linux# uname -a Linux guruslack 2.6.35-kirkwood #2 PREEMPT Wed Aug 4 17:01:31 BST 2010 armv5tel Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) Marvell GuruPlug Reference Board GNU/Linux yet in 13.1 it is working fine. r...@guruslack:~# modinfo uap8xxx filename: /lib/modules/2.6.33.5-kirkwood/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_uap/uap8xxx.ko.gz license:GPL version:26146 author: Marvell International Ltd. description:M-UAP Driver srcversion: A1CB6539A717ACCA9F3C0E8 alias: sdio:c*v02DFd9104* depends:mmc_core vermagic: 2.6.33.5-kirkwood preempt mod_unload modversions ARMv5 parm: helper_name:Helper name (charp) parm: fw_name:Firmware name (charp) r...@guruslack:~# uname -a Linux guruslack 2.6.33.5-kirkwood #2 PREEMPT Thu May 27 14:47:11 BST 2010 armv5tel Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) Marvell GuruPlug Reference Board GNU/Linux -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] Has anyone tried Linux 2.6.36-rc5?
On 09/26/2010 01:03 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: I have only compiled a kernel and not updated the initrd. But it boots up to that point. Granted I stripped out ALOT of modules and bits and [..] /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Your kernel is fine. I guess whatever you have stripped out helps. But I am curious whether the kernel I built will boot on the guruplug. Could you test it? http://stash.armedslack.org/linux-2.6.36-rc5/ r...@guruslack:~# uname -a Linux guruslack 2.6.36rc5-kirkwood #2 PREEMPT Fri Sep 24 11:54:04 BST 2010 armv5tel Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) Marvell GuruPlug Reference Board GNU/Linux -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug
Stuart Winter wrote: http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=selectid=15 Does the guruplug u-boot binary available from the 2nd url provide ext2load ? I ran strings over it: It doesn't. http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_uboot http://oinkzwurgl.org/dl.php?file=guruplug-u-boot-flipflip-20100512.tar.gz However, this one does. Try that :) I got mine loading from FAT16 but not FAT32. 32 gave me streaming errors even trying a fatls. I converted it to FAT16 (32M) and it boots fine now from an SD card. I will be a guinea pig and try that u-boot. I'll let you know how it goes. -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug update
I installed that new u-boot and now I get ext2load. This is so strange that Globalscale felt it necessary/wise to leave this out. Converting the SD card /dev/sdc1 from FAT back to ext2 on my linux desktop. Symlinks intact.. PLugged back into the plug. and Booting Sweet! - Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 GuruPlug setenv bootargs_console console=ttyS0,115200 GuruPlug setenv bootargs_root 'root=/dev/sdc3 waitforroot=10 rootfs=ext3' GuruPlug setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_slk ; reset' GuruPlug setenv bootcmd_slk 'usb start;ext2load usb 1:1 0x0110 uinitrd-kirkwood;ext2load usb 1:1 0x0080 /uImage-kirkwood;bootm 0x0080 0x0110' GuruPlug boot (Re)start USB... USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1 USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found scanning bus for storage devices... Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 02 3A 00 2 Storage Device(s) found Loading file uinitrd-kirkwood from usb device 1:1 (usbdb1) -- ( this is taking a while minutes later and USB stick still blinking... It didnt take this long to fatload DONE finally! - fatload was pretty instantaneous) -- 7700860 bytes read Loading file /uImage-kirkwood from usb device 1:1 (usbdb1) 2056040 bytes read ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 0080 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.33.4-kirkwood Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size:2055976 Bytes = 2 MB Load Address: 8000 Entry Point: 8000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 0110 ... Image Name: Slackware ARM Initial RAM disk f Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size:7700796 Bytes = 7.3 MB Load Address: Entry Point: Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. [0.00] Linux version 2.6.33.4-kirkwood (r...@wizbit) (gcc version 4.4.4 (GCC) ) #2 PREEMPT Wed May 19 11:14:40 BST 2010 [0.00] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977 [0.00] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache [0.00] Machine: Marvell GuruPlug Reference Board fatload takes seconds compared to ext2load. I timed a reboot r...@mary:~# date # ext2load start Mon May 24 00:51:29 EDT 2010 r...@mary:~# date # ext2load finish Mon May 24 00:54:07 EDT 2010 r...@mary:~# This makes for a long boot time. Why am I getting these UDEV errors during the init? - Going multiuser... Updating shared library links: /sbin/ldconfig cannot (un)set powersave mode udevd[976]: bind failed: Address already in use udevd[976]: error binding control socket, seems udevd is already running Triggering udev events: /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=failed /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo Is this because udev is already started in the initrd? (I am only guessing) SWEET! I can use Slackware now! Thanks Stuart John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== ++==+ | John O'Donnell| | | (Sr. Systems Engineer,|http://juanisan.homeip.net| | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: unixjohn1...@gmail.com | ++==+ No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
