Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] `mtd' or /dev/mtdblockN?

2009-01-18 Thread Mike Baker
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:28:04PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > What's the difference between writing the flash using the `mtd' utility, > or writing it by catting into /dev/mtdblockN ? Ideally you want to use the mtd command. The problem with flash is that you can't simply write to it one byte

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] `mtd' or /dev/mtdblockN?

2009-01-18 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. A typical write with mtd spans across multiple partitions (linux, rootfs, maybe rootfs_data). I don't think this is possible by catting stuff into /dev/mtdblockN unless you start to cut the image in pieces with dd and friends, but at this point

[OpenWrt-Devel] `mtd' or /dev/mtdblockN?

2009-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
What's the difference between writing the flash using the `mtd' utility, or writing it by catting into /dev/mtdblockN ? Stefan ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] uclibC update, vnstat crontab update, openssh update (only works with uclibc 0.9.30), openssl update

2009-01-18 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
Hi Puchu, I have looked a little though your patches, not completely and I did no testing. Especially for uClibc there has to be done more. I found this lines, in my opinion there are wrong: +KERNEL_HEADERS="/mnt/devel/openwrt/openwrt.vanilla/build_dir/toolchain-mips_gcc-4.1.2_uClibc-0.9.30/linux

[OpenWrt-Devel] uclibC update, vnstat crontab update, openssh update (only works with uclibc 0.9.30), openssl update

2009-01-18 Thread Puchu
forgot the ntp patch here it is greets Index: Makefile === --- Makefile (Revision 14026) +++ Makefile (Arbeitskopie) @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk PKG_NAME:=ntp -PKG_VERSION:=4.2.4p4 +PKG_VERSION:=4.2.4p6

[OpenWrt-Devel] uclibC update, vnstat crontab update, openssh update (only works with uclibc 0.9.30), openssl update

2009-01-18 Thread Puchu
Hi after some time playing around i created this patches and extended some from dev.openwrt.org uclibc-0.9.30.patch: patches taken and updated from ticket #4271 ... uClibc update patch + mipsel config vnstat.patch vnstat is creating a false crontab entry: it is using wrong dirs and its al

[OpenWrt-Devel] [rfc] regarding ubifs

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Mantellini
Hi Guys, I would like understand if (and, when and how) the ubifs filesystem (successor of jffs2) will be supported. >From my checks, I noticed 3 points where changes will applied in order to support the ubifs: - tools/mtd -> to add host crosstools for make ubifs - packages/mtd -> to add targe