**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu May 08 02:59:57 2008
May 08 03:01:23 <RobNC> rwhitby: got your msg about -f Flashdisk:Flashdisk but I didn't know what to do about 16MB FatFlash deltas between your RedBoot (2007) versus one in slugos releases (2004).
May 08 03:02:06 <rwhitby> RobNC: have you tried just flashing my RedBoot?
May 08 03:02:53 <rwhitby> it will mean you get my ethernet address, but you can patch that and re-jtag if it works
May 08 03:03:06 <RobNC> rwhitby: yes that is certainly do-able but I was trying to help update the wiki page somehow, using a baseline (i.e., the RedBoot we think everyone has).  Reproducibility is important (for others than just me)  :-)
May 08 03:03:55 <RobNC> I was going to actually re-flash my built slugosbe and replace the redboot with yours, using my MAC address, reassemble with slugimage
May 08 03:04:24 <rwhitby> agreed - we need to work out why it is different
May 08 03:04:59 <RobNC> BTW, I got u-boot to recognize my 2 banks of 128MB but still need to research config registers for setting GPIO13 output (easy) and high (not so easy - need to do this at the right time and place).
May 08 03:05:49 <RobNC> u-boot works with ymodem and kermit so it's slightly better in that regard than apex but I don't think u-boot can do what apex can (sdram-init) just yet.
May 08 03:06:37 <RobNC> back to RedBoot differences, I did see yours versus mine deltas but the address deltas weren't exact (off by perhaps 4-6 bytes in locations).
May 08 03:10:44 <RobNC> You'd think for uboot that the ixp425 config board .h .c files would be close enough to use for nslu2 (it actually references it) - you can tell the different coding styles.
May 08 04:46:47 <CIA-45> 03steveb * r8288 10optware/trunk/make/ftpd-topfield.mk: Update to ftpd-topfield version 0.7.6
May 08 05:13:01 <RobNC> Can someone with authority update the master Makefile as part of "svn co http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk ~slug/kernel"- IxNpeMicrocode.c points to an old version of ixp400Npe library - v2.1.  It should point to v2.4.
May 08 05:14:22 <RobNC> (perhaps as part of bzhou's updates?)
May 08 05:42:33 <rwhitby> RobNC: is that for u-boot?
May 08 05:42:39 <rwhitby> If so, it needs to be 2.1
May 08 05:47:46 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8289 10optware/trunk/ (make/htop.mk sources/htop/ sources/htop/linux24-child.patch): htop: -> 0.8
May 08 05:51:49 <RobNC> yes, does it need to be 2.1 - because it works with 2.4, unless 2.1 is what makes ethernet detection work?
May 08 05:52:19 <RobNC> I should say, u-boot build works with 2.4 but not NPE detection.
May 08 05:55:09 <RobNC> maybe I should try 2.1 to see if NPE detection works with that.
May 08 05:59:38 <RobNC> seems like download for 2.1 is no longer at Intel website, not even archives as mentioned here:  http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Development/DownloadingTheIntelSourceCode
May 08 06:19:22 <rwhitby> the NPE microcode identifiers changed between 2.1 and 2.4
May 08 06:20:50 <rwhitby> it can be made to work with 2.4, but you need to change the u-boot source to do so
May 08 07:12:38 <Kowalczyk> I finally got my nslu2 up and going:) it's nice:D
May 08 07:14:22 <Kowalczyk> like this:D
May 08 10:05:41 <osmeest> trying to run debian on my iomega NAS 100d, I managed to boot the kernel but it fails to recognize the ramdisk
May 08 10:06:08 <osmeest> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0                                      
May 08 10:06:08 <osmeest> No filesystem could mount root, tried:  cramfs                                  
May 08 10:06:09 <osmeest> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) 
May 08 10:06:30 <osmeest> someone knows how to work around this ?
May 08 14:35:53 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8290 10optware/trunk/ (make/ftpd-topfield.mk sources/ftpd-topfield/usb_io.patch): ftpd-topfield: fixed build for fsg3v4 and openwrt-ixp4xx
May 08 16:18:21 <osmeest> rwhitby: do you have a second ?  my kernel boots but it does not recognize the initrd
May 08 16:56:40 <Blastur> how can I checkout the sourcecode for nslu2-linux?
May 08 16:56:50 <Blastur> even better, is there a repository browser anywhere
May 08 16:57:02 <Blastur> im not familiar with this monotone thingie ;)
May 08 17:06:01 <osmeest> Blastur: there is a Trac with the different firmwares at http://trac.nslu2-linux.org
May 08 17:06:33 <osmeest> the problem is that the code you will browse is mainly bitbake files and patch files
May 08 17:11:36 <Blastur> im particularly looking for the ethernet driver source
May 08 17:12:13 <Blastur> think i found it now though, at .. http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/debian/browser/ixp400-eth/branches/upstream/current/ixp400-eth/ixp400_eth.c
May 08 17:12:17 <Blastur> thanks a bunch osmeest 
May 08 17:12:25 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8291 10optware/trunk/make/libpng.mk: libpng: 1.2.28 -> 1.2.29
May 08 17:12:35 <osmeest> the driver comes from the kernel
May 08 17:12:58 <osmeest> but it refers to a firmware that is closed source (downloaded as a binary from Intel)
May 08 17:13:42 <Blastur> i thought there was an opensource driver?
May 08 17:14:13 <osmeest> to be confirmed but AFAIK, the driver is open source but still using the firmware from Intel
May 08 17:15:42 <Blastur> okay, what does the firmware contain? tcp offload engine?
May 08 17:20:07 <osmeest> that I don't know...
May 08 17:28:24 <Blastur> it doesn't seem so if i read the code, the firmware seems to manage stuff like tx / rx descriptor rings and receiving of packets
May 08 17:28:44 <Blastur> basically implementing NAPI in hardware and triggering a single interrupt to the driver once its ready to purge
May 08 17:30:28 <osmeest> that's typical for an eth interface
May 08 17:31:55 <osmeest> typical firmware implement hardware functions and the interface to the host (queues & interrupts)
May 08 17:32:17 <Blastur> well, i guess thats a good thing then
May 08 17:32:26 <Blastur> cause the firmware runs on its own cpu, right? inside the NPE?
May 08 17:35:31 <osmeest> whether its a cpu, a dsp or any kind of programmable chip (like fpga), i don't know
May 08 17:35:43 <osmeest> but the principle stays the same
May 08 17:44:05 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8292 10optware/trunk/make/htop.mk: htop: fixed build for fsg3v4
May 08 18:33:45 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8293 10optware/trunk/make/squid.mk: squid: 2.6.19 -> 2.6.20
May 08 20:21:57 <ZPertee> does anyone know if I can add a usb to irda adapter to a slug so that I can add an ifrared remote?
May 08 20:23:47 <treitmayr> an infrared remote using an irda adapter?
May 08 20:24:13 <treitmayr> these are usually two different protocols!
May 08 20:25:17 <treitmayr> ZPertee: Do you want to use a regular infrared remote control?
May 09 00:30:59 <pjz> how should I go about converting my slugos-nslu2 into a debian one?
May 09 00:31:33 <pjz> I finally got around to getting a memcard for it, so I've got room for a full debin install on /dev/sda1 now
May 09 02:01:44 <CIA-45> 03bzhou * r8294 10optware/trunk/make/freetds.mk: freetds: 0.64 -> 0.82
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