Specifying the MTD partitions in a device tree

2015-05-13 Thread Rogério Brito
nel that came with it). I would ge greateful for anybody that can help here. I hope to both learn and help with the maintainance of such machines. Once again, thanks a lot for any help, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFC http:/

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Scott. On Apr 16 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 21:01 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Apr 16 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > > > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 19:55 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > Is there any "proper" way for me to discover

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Scott. On Apr 16 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 19:55 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is there any "proper" way for me to discover what device name the kernel > > uses? I have tried the following command lines without success: > > >

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Scott and others. On Apr 09 2015, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Apr 09 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 18:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > > > mtdparts=myflash:4096k(allflash),3072k(firmimg),448k@3072k(bootcode),64k@3520k(status),512k@3

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Scott. On Apr 07 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 21:37 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I see. If I do some "archaeology" (read: bisect when it stopped > > working), would that help to discover how the flash is connected? > > It will probably g

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Scott, Once again, thank you very much for your answer. On Apr 07 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 20:58 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > This is good to know. Is there any reasonable dts that I can copy/adapt? > > I'm not familiar with how flash is connec

Re: Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Scott. First of all, thank you so very much for your reply. On Apr 07 2015, Scott Wood wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 02:40 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > , > > | physmap platform flash device: 0040 at ffc0 > > | physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x16 devices

Old regression with MTD devices disappearing from a Kurobox HD/HG

2015-04-03 Thread Rogério Brito
werpc/boot/dts/kuroboxHD.dts?id=1cced5015b171415169d938fb179c44fe060dc15#n17 [1]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kuroboxHG.dts?id=1cced5015b171415169d938fb179c44fe060dc15#n17 Is this a problem that can be fixed via additions to the DTS

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14021] New: hfsplus caused data loss

2009-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
quot; fsck, just to get a little bit more confidence that I didn't mess with the userspace side of things. But, then, this surprise. I had some minor inconsistencies with the HFS+ driver in the past, but they were fixed by running the fsck.hfsplus that I packaged and I didn't bother repo

[PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
disable extended attributes in CIFS, ext3, and NFS. 12. enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- This is the patch for tidying the defconfig. I'm still having issues with the MTD devices, it seems. :-( I will investigate this now. I can send a similar patch to storc

[PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops

2009-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
etdev_ops. This is against this morning's net-2.6 tree. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- diff --git a/drivers/net/mace.c b/drivers/net/mace.c index feebbd9..03a179d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mace.c +++ b/drivers/net/mace.c @@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ static inline void dbdma_reset(volatile struct dbdma

[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-28 Thread Rogério Brito
. enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- Here is the fixed patch. Thank you very much, Kumar. --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig2009-04-28 09:53:38.0 -0300 +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig2009-04-28 10:14:11.0 -0300

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-28 Thread Rogério Brito
YMAP_COMPAT and >> put the same settings there, quite unfortunately). > > ok.. I killed my kurobox long ago so can't be much help here. Oh... :-( I will post the problems that I get with MTD on my kurobox so that people from both the linux-mtd/linuxppc-dev lists can see what is ha

[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-28 Thread Rogério Brito
CIFS, ext3, and NFS. 12. enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- This is the patch for tidying the defconfig. --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig2009-04-28 09:53:38.0 -0300 +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig2009-04-28

[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: updating the linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-28 Thread Rogério Brito
Simple update of the linkstation_defconfig file for the 2.6.30-rc3 tree. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- As asked, Kumar, here is a vanilla update. --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig2009-04-26 11:55:06.0 -0300 +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kumar. On Apr 27 2009, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: >> 04. disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM. > > do we not allow booting a ramdisk? Well, do we need a block device in ram to use initramfs? (...) >> Dear Kumar, please, apply this o

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops

2009-04-27 Thread Rogério Brito
he documentation about netdev_ops under Documentation (a simple grep didn't turn any results). > .ndo_change_mtu = eth_change_mtu, > .ndo_set_mac_address= eth_mac_addr, > .ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr, Nice. I will incorporate such things.

[PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops (was: Re: [2.6.30-rc3] powerpc: compilation error of mace module)

2009-04-27 Thread Rogério Brito
t_device, but is marked inline and is used by mace_tx_timeout, which receives an unsigned long (which calls mace_set_timeout). Perhaps it would be a case of removing the inline hint to the compiler? I guess that BenH or Paul could comment here better... Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- --- a/dr

[2.6.30-rc3] powerpc: compilation error of mace module

2009-04-26 Thread Rogério Brito
media/cross-compile/linux' make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.

[PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig

2009-04-24 Thread Rogério Brito
, ext3, and NFS. 12. enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito --- Dear Kumar, please, apply this one. I have another patch regarding one regression regarding MTD & PHYSMAP_COMPAT that I plan to send on top of this one. Thanks. --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defco

Re: Regarding the linkstation defconfig

2009-04-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Guennadi, and Kumar. On Apr 24 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Guennadi, since you seem to be the one responsible for the > > linkstation/kurobox in the kernel, > > That's not howI interpret my role in linkstati

Regarding the linkstation defconfig

2009-04-24 Thread Rogério Brito
d to get things in shape both on my systems and in the default kernel configuration, in general. Thank you very much for your contributions, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzi

Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 bombs while compiling a kernel for a linkstation/kurobox

2009-03-03 Thread Rogério Brito
already today.) Please, Cc me any relevant patches, as I'm not subscribed to all those lists. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito P

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.27] i2c-mpc not probing on linkstation

2008-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - fsl-i2c^@ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Is there any further information that I can provide so that we can get things fixed? Thanks, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~r

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations

2008-10-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi again. On Oct 18 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > And it seems that there is something not quite right for these embedded > systems. Here is something that I get with a vanilla linkstation_defconfig: > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > driver

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations

2008-10-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. On Oct 13 2008, Scott Wood wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:05:09PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > The current defconfig for Linkstation/Kuroboxes has the "Disable > > > Heap Randomization" optio

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations

2008-10-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, This other patch was also sent some days ago and I would appreciate some feedback on it. Regards, Rogério Brito. On Oct 13 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > The current defconfig for Linkstation/Kuroboxes has the "Disable Heap > Randomization" option enabled. > > Since

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: compile kernel for linkstations optimized for size

2008-10-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, It's been some days since I sent the patch below. I would appreciate if any feedback was given. Thanks, Rogério Brito. On Oct 13 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since Linkstations and Kuroboxes often have *very* little m

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: compile kernel for linkstations optimized for size

2008-10-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Guennadi. On 13/10/2008, at 16:03, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since Linkstations and Kuroboxes often have *very* little memory (as they are embedded systems), it is desirable to get their k

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations

2008-10-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Scott, Guennadi. On 13/10/2008, at 16:44, Scott Wood wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:05:09PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: The current defconfig for Linkstation/Kuroboxes has the "Disable Heap Randomization" option enabled.

[PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations

2008-10-12 Thread Rogério Brito
The current defconfig for Linkstation/Kuroboxes has the "Disable Heap Randomization" option enabled. Since some of these machines are facing the internet, it helps to have heap randomization enabled. This patch enables it. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH] powerpc: compile kernel for linkstations optimized for size

2008-10-12 Thread Rogério Brito
From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since Linkstations and Kuroboxes often have *very* little memory (as they are embedded systems), it is desirable to get their kernels compiled optimized for size. Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I have been using kerne

Re: Call Trace and scary messages on kernel 2.6.27-rc5

2008-09-10 Thread Rogério Brito
Thanks to both Mark and Heiko. On Sep 09 2008, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:47:29 -0300 Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just compiled a new 2.6.27-rc5 kernel for my standard Kurobox (an > > embedded NAS that has an MPC8241 CPU, if I

Getting Debian to release the PowerPC port

2008-09-10 Thread Rogério Brito
tion>, so that powerpc does not become "at risk" of not being released? Is the powerpc port cared by some team in special or is it just a "unified" upstream? Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8

Call Trace and scary messages on kernel 2.6.27-rc5

2008-09-08 Thread Rogério Brito
n the target). I am open to any suggestions. If I can help chasing the cause of such scary messages in anyway, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie

Re: Call Trace and scary messages on kernel 2.6.27-rc5

2008-09-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 08 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > I just compiled a new 2.6.27-rc5 kernel for my standard Kurobox (an > embedded NAS that has an MPC8241 CPU, if I'm not mistaken) and upon > booting, I get these scary messages and Call Traces: (...) I obviously forgot to attach the files in

Re: Sleep problems with kernels >= 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Thanks, Michal. I didn't know who to include as the wizards of the matter. On Aug 27 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > [Adding STR wizards to CC] > > On 26/08/07, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I, on the other hand, use Debian's kernel 2.6.

Sleep problems with kernels >= 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-25 Thread Rogério Brito
ied mailing lists that I think that are relevant. If they aren't, then please let me know. I would also appreciate if I were kept on carbon copies as I am only subscribed to debian-powerpc at the moment. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: It unfortunately doesn't matter if I switch to a consol