**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Apr 12 02:59:57 2007 Apr 12 08:18:50 Hi Apr 12 08:19:06 I have been running debian sarge armeb on my NSLU2 for quite a while now Apr 12 08:19:15 Now I’d like to upgrade to etch Apr 12 08:19:31 Is there an armeb port of etch around? I only can find little endian archives. Apr 12 08:20:00 no official support, of course Apr 12 08:21:11 Can I easily upgrade to etch arm then, or would I have to re-install everything? Apr 12 08:22:39 hmm Apr 12 08:22:50 the easy answer is ... no Apr 12 08:23:13 and the hard one? Apr 12 08:23:57 Someone active in debonaras needs to build an armeb etch port Apr 12 08:24:20 this issue is that the arm arch in debian is in a state of transition anyway Apr 12 08:24:34 eabi is coming in, slowly, and it will be LE at first Apr 12 08:24:46 until that's done BE support is pushed to low priority Apr 12 08:25:27 so I’m better off installing etch arm, right? Apr 12 08:26:00 I would install LE if you really want to upgrade Apr 12 08:26:17 or just continue running sarge BE, unless you have any major issues with that... Apr 12 08:26:52 Actually, I don’t really do. Apr 12 08:27:11 Unless rsync has some new features that are worth it (It’s doing backups only anyways) Apr 12 08:27:31 and 256 days uptime is pretty neat :-) Apr 12 08:28:09 if it works, leave it Apr 12 08:28:17 that's my advice... Apr 12 08:28:29 BE has better network performance anyway Apr 12 08:29:10 Ok, that’s a plus Apr 12 08:34:01 blaster8: any figures? Apr 12 08:34:16 drif: not to hand Apr 12 08:34:23 but the principle is quite simple to understand Apr 12 08:35:02 the NPE (network processing engines) can pull an ethernet frame to be sent over the network straight from memory without going through the CPU once it has been constructed Apr 12 08:35:30 when both CPU and NPE are running in BE mode this is fine and dandy Apr 12 08:36:11 however, when CPU runs in address-coherent LE mode and NPE is still in BE, the CPU must byteswap the entire ethernet frame first Apr 12 08:36:24 which means you lose the DMA advantage of the NPE Apr 12 08:36:24 just curtious, which unslung uses? so is BE even comparable to performance I get now? Apr 12 08:39:20 BE Apr 12 08:39:56 what performance do you get now, and with what? Apr 12 08:40:42 Network processing is only a relatively small overhead when dealing with an cpu-intensive protocol like SMBor rsync, for example Apr 12 08:40:51 so the performance numbers won't be massively changed Apr 12 15:23:11 I was wondering if an attempt could be made to combine these two projects: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddVGAAdapter and http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/X11 Apr 12 15:26:24 why? Apr 12 15:26:32 hehe Apr 12 15:28:02 it's theoretically possible but unlikely to work in practice **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Apr 13 02:59:56 2007