**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Nov 11 03:00:00 2018 Nov 11 04:33:14 Hello guys, Was wondering if someone can give me some advice, i just bought a beagleboard to try to mount an iscsi LUN via usb using g_mass_storage Nov 11 09:13:42 just curious.... why? Nov 11 09:18:54 heh USB-to-iSCSI adapter, funny idea. Doubt the performance will be that great. Nov 11 09:20:17 that's what I was figgerin'. Nov 11 09:21:49 "What if I adapt serial to midi then pump that across TCP/IP to an iscsi san then turn it into USB for conversion to ascii ? Nov 11 09:22:34 that's a silly comparison. the usb mass storage protocol and iscsi are both tunneled scsi protocols Nov 11 09:22:57 after doing a rot-13 somewhere in the middle of all that. Nov 11 09:23:43 so it doesn't sound that weird to me to want a bridge between them Nov 11 09:26:51 the bigger issue is that using g_mass_storage precludes doing direct passthrough of scsi commands Nov 11 09:27:15 (but has the benefit of probably working out of the box) Nov 11 09:31:45 ..... the iscsi rfc contains UML diagrams drawn in ascii art -.- Nov 11 13:40:13 Anyone know does Beaglebone black can install centos7? Nov 11 13:43:35 Andy___: in theory you can install any distro if you're willing to put in the effort ;) Nov 11 13:43:48 whether anyone already has put in the effort should be easily answerable by googling Nov 11 13:48:09 there seems to be "ARM HFP" of CentOS7. Given that it claims to have crackberry-pi images that's probably ARMv6 HFP. There is a generic rootfs too. Definitively "some assembly required" (a lot!). http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/ Nov 11 13:48:45 ew, you don't want armv6 Nov 11 13:49:03 ah, says armv7 Nov 11 13:49:05 https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp Nov 11 13:50:33 but yeah, you need an armhf rootfs + an arm kernel built with support for the AM335x + suitable u-boot Nov 11 13:50:50 u-boot is the only really SoC-specific part, the kernel and rootfs can be fairly generic Nov 11 13:53:22 yes, but seems no body try this way before.... Nov 11 13:54:00 yes, this is not a beginner-task Nov 11 13:55:05 I don't think fedora/centos is popular on embedded systems? I personally associate it more with servers and enterprise stuff Nov 11 13:57:57 seems it did work in FC at some point: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F26/Installation/Hardware_Status Nov 11 13:58:03 officially (according to their own FAQ) centos 7 only supports x86_64. other architectures such as ARM are unofficial community-maintained ports Nov 11 13:58:55 centos7 already support arm server, I tested it before :) Nov 11 13:59:05 not officially Nov 11 13:59:32 https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-059f2f807ebb83e93f272a8cf4c287f92831927e Nov 11 14:00:17 lol, centos 7 uses kernel 3.10 ? Nov 11 14:02:10 https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp this has isntructions for making an image Nov 11 14:02:31 use the generic armhf image + u-boot built for am335x_boneblack Nov 11 14:04:04 oh, this is a good news for me, thanks zmatt! Nov 11 14:10:40 zmatt: 3.8 sure was the better kernel though :> Nov 12 02:33:20 just redesigning my board but wondering if I need to do anything different circuit wise to make eQEP work reliably. Currently they work fine as long as I'm turning them slowly. Nov 12 02:34:12 which i guess is another way of saying they don't work correctly :) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Mon Nov 12 02:59:59 2018