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| 00:43.34 | Ksilebo | Moo. |
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| 01:10.01 | Christopher | I added a page so that we can compile everything that needs to be fixed with oe packages to make them work with unslung |
| 01:47.59 | jacques | hmm it appears to have worked |
| 01:48.45 | jacques | Creating 5 MTD partitions on "IXP4XX-Flash0": |
| 01:48.45 | jacques | 0x00000000-0x00040000 : "RedBoot" |
| 01:48.45 | jacques | 0x00040000-0x00060000 : "System Configuration" |
| 01:48.50 | Christopher | what appears to have worked? |
| 01:48.53 | jacques | 0x00060000-0x00160000 : "Kernel" |
| 01:48.53 | jacques | 0x00160000-0x00800000 : "Ramdisk" |
| 01:48.53 | jacques | 0x00180000-0x007e0000 : "JFFS2" |
| 01:48.57 | jacques | lol |
| 01:48.59 | Christopher | cool |
| 01:49.13 | jacques | you messed up my flow :-P |
| 01:49.20 | Christopher | sorry :-) |
| 01:49.41 | jacques | I made a fifth partition which is a subset of the Ramdisk one |
| 01:49.59 | jacques | changed the kernel command line to boot to /dev/mtdblock4 |
| 01:50.19 | Christopher | that's good |
| 01:50.37 | jacques | and (almost forgot this part) made the devices /dev/mtd4 and /dev/mtdblock4 - tho I'm not positive that was necessary |
| 01:50.46 | Christopher | I'm trying to port oe packages to unslung again |
| 01:50.53 | jacques | ah |
| 01:51.22 | Christopher | and also trying to get some momentum so peopel will help me :-) |
| 01:51.50 | jacques | momentum does help |
| 01:51.58 | Christopher | yes, well I'm off to get food ttyl |
| 01:54.44 | jacques | later |
| 01:55.00 | [g2] | jacques, cool |
| 01:55.22 | jacques | [g2], :-) |
| 01:56.06 | [g2] | i kind of remember you could overlap partitions (like int OpenWRT) |
| 01:56.54 | [g2] | it makes sense that you start 1 block in and finish 1 block early :) |
| 01:57.22 | jacques | it seems to be happy enough - I was a bit worried since I am making the JFFS2 partition writable while the Ramdisk one isn't - I didn't know how it would deal with that |
| 01:58.02 | [g2] | two different partitions, as long as noone ever mounts the ramdisk :) |
| 01:58.07 | jacques | yeah without a new bootloader I think losing two blocks is the best we can do |
| 01:58.32 | [g2] | are you planning on using a new bootloader ? |
| 01:58.57 | jacques | right now I'm trying to make this for people who aren't |
| 01:59.26 | [g2] | so, are you planning on using a new bootloader ? :) |
| 01:59.28 | jacques | if a new bootloader binary gets tested by a few people I would probably load it |
| 01:59.48 | [g2] | ahh |
| 02:00.17 | jacques | I want to be rid of the current redboot limitations |
| 02:00.17 | [g2] | i know how you feel |
| 02:00.40 | [g2] | have you made the jffs2 the default config in anyu2 ? |
| 02:00.47 | jacques | no |
| 02:01.05 | [g2] | I don't see any reason not to make that the default config, do you ? |
| 02:01.11 | jacques | I put the readme in there for ppl who want to play with it |
| 02:01.31 | jacques | it depends on the current users of anyu2 |
| 02:02.02 | jacques | I don;t know what they want - I figured for now I could just tell them how to do it if they want |
| 02:07.07 | [g2] | so do you think we can make that the default config ? |
| 02:07.42 | [g2] | sf cvs doesn't have who all pulls the updates does it ? |
| 02:08.55 | jacques | hmm I haven't seen that feature |
| 02:10.41 | jacques | [g2], I would like to run it by rwhitby-away before making a default config change |
| 02:17.36 | [g2] | jacques, np |
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| 02:20.22 | rwhitby-web | . |
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| 02:26.31 | jacques | hi rwhitby-web2 did you see the overlapping partitions appear to be working |
| 02:29.17 | rwhitby-web2 | this web gateway seems to not be working too well today |
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| 02:30.18 | rwhitby-web1 | ok, I think I'm here now |
| 02:30.23 | jacques | heh |
| 02:30.39 | jacques | did you see my comment about overlapping partitions? |
| 02:30.39 | rwhitby-web1 | jacques: can the partition addition go in -able kernel too ? |
| 02:30.47 | rwhitby-web1 | I've been reading the logs |
| 02:30.52 | rwhitby-web1 | that's why I bounced in :-0 |
| 02:31.08 | rwhitby-web1 | is it possible to change the command line options in /linuxrc? |
| 02:31.31 | jacques | right now I have only tested this in anyu2 - so I have only modified the 2.6 kernel (so far) |
| 02:31.49 | jacques | I don;t see why it could not go into the -able kernel |
| 02:32.04 | rwhitby-web1 | then we could have a linuxrc which checked for a zero ramdisk header length (indicating jffs2 is being used, as opposed to just the partition being present in the map) and if so, then change the command line to load jffs2 |
| 02:32.23 | rwhitby-web1 | same ramdisk for both |
| 02:32.27 | rwhitby-web1 | same kernel for both |
| 02:32.50 | rwhitby-web1 | to switch between ramdisk and jffs2, you simply fis write the ramdisk area, |
| 02:33.11 | rwhitby-web1 | we release jffs2 images with top and tail added to make it a ramdisk image |
| 02:33.16 | jacques | but what would the kernel command line look like? |
| 02:33.41 | jacques | I don't see a way to get around changing the kernel command line |
| 02:33.43 | rwhitby-web1 | it would be stock (/dev/slug), and linuxrc would fix it |
| 02:34.08 | rwhitby-web1 | the question is whether linuxrc can set noinitrd |