Re: [GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-05-19 Thread Jaromil
re all On Tue, 06 Mar 2012, Michał Masłowski wrote: I personally need a libre WRT for the distribution of free software I'm writing and made to run on *WRT like platforms. Actually, I hope libreWRT will also support the raspberry pi somehow, once that hits our desks... I'm told the

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-03-09 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:58:42 +0100 Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012, Michał Masłowski wrote: We're not currently using a bootloader - we actually boot via the GPU, which contains a proprietary RISC core (wacky architecture). The GPU mounts the SD card, loads GPU

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-03-06 Thread Jason Self
Ineiev asked: Is it self-hosting? I'm not sure that the self-hosting requirement makes sense in this case because emedded devices typically do not have the resources to compile their own software. It's usually done on a more capable system and then copied to the device afterward. In the case of

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-03-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz wrote: I've not looked at LibreWRT myself, but I'd trust Jason to be doing due diligence (to the extent that is possible). He has been responsible for finding a lot of the issues currently listed on our NONFSDG page :) + 1

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-03-06 Thread Michał Masłowski
I personally need a libre WRT for the distribution of free software I'm writing and made to run on *WRT like platforms. Actually, I hope libreWRT will also support the raspberry pi somehow, once that hits our desks... I'm told the pi relies on proprietary software for several things, but

[GNU-linux-libre] LibreWRT free distro?

2012-03-05 Thread Karl Berry
Jason Self, Denver Gingerich, and others have been developing LibreWRT, a free distro of a rather different sort -- building an image that gets flashed onto a router or whatever. I think it may have been mentioned on this list already. Jason and I were talking about it recently. I'll append the