[leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-01 Thread Victor McAllister
Has anyone tried LEAF on the PC Engines ALIX board? If so, what are your experiences? watchdog? It is cheaper and smaller than Soekris. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visua

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-03 Thread Martin Hejl
Victor McAllister wrote: > Has anyone tried LEAF on the PC Engines ALIX board? If so, what are > your experiences? watchdog? It is cheaper and smaller than Soekris. I don't have any experience yet, but a few ALIX boards will hopefully arrive at my office in the next few days. The units should w

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-03 Thread Victor McAllister
Martin Hejl wrote: > Victor McAllister wrote: > >> Has anyone tried LEAF on the PC Engines ALIX board? If so, what are >> your experiences? watchdog? It is cheaper and smaller than Soekris. >> > I don't have any experience yet, but a few ALIX boards will hopefully > arrive at my office in

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-03 Thread Erich Titl
>> >> Martin >> >> > Pascal Dornier from PC Engines says he will prepare some DOS sample code > - if someone wants to try to implement a watchdog for ALIX. I doubt this would help much, it might be better to port back the 2.6 code. Erich -

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-04 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Erich, >> Pascal Dornier from PC Engines says he will prepare some DOS sample code >> - if someone wants to try to implement a watchdog for ALIX. > > I doubt this would help much, it might be better to port back the 2.6 code. Indeed it would, if somebody were willing to port the driver. But

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-04 Thread Bob Gregory
> -Original Message- > From: ... Martin Hejl ... > > Hi Erich, > > >> Pascal Dornier from PC Engines says he will prepare some DOS sample > code > >> - if someone wants to try to implement a watchdog for ALIX. > > > > I doubt this would help much, it might be better to port back the 2.6 >

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-04 Thread Erich Titl
Bob Bob Gregory wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: ... Martin Hejl ... >> >> Hi Erich, >> ... > > If the ALIX is like the (now obsolete) PC Engines WRAP, isn't a watchdog > driver needed for software reboot? Otherwise, I recall the only way to > restart one was to power cycle the box

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-04 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Martin Martin Hejl wrote: > Hi Erich, > >>> Pascal Dornier from PC Engines says he will prepare some DOS sample code >>> - if someone wants to try to implement a watchdog for ALIX. >> I doubt this would help much, it might be better to port back the 2.6 code. > Indeed it would, if somebody we

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-05 Thread Giovanni Franza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Titl wrote: > ... > > Looking at my calendar I see now the year 2008 :-) > > It may be time to switch to kernel 2.6 as most people have enough > storage and memory to handle it. I know, this breaks the LEAF code, but > it gets more and more d

Re: [leaf-user] ALIX board

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Erich, > The watchdog reboot for the WRAP was just handy. I _believe_ one can > make reboot work by reboot=bios at startup, I never used it though. correct (I just tried it to make sure). If you have "append reboot=bios" in your syslinux.cfg file (which is in there by default), rebooting wor