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Dec 03 06:57:01 <CIA-20> 03bzhou * r7388 10optware/trunk/Makefile: Makefile: added -savespace target
Dec 03 07:05:23 <CIA-20> 03bzhou * r7389 10optware/trunk/platforms/toolchain-slugosle.mk: toolchain-slugosle: got TARGET_ARCH wrong
Dec 03 13:15:50 <thraxisp> Does anyone know the status of the IXP425 ethernet drivers in the Apex bootloader?
Dec 03 13:42:21 <rwhitby> thraxisp: they are not there.
Dec 03 14:05:33 <thraxisp> rwhitby: Is there a plan to add them?
Dec 03 14:09:02 <thraxisp> I'm looking for a replacement for an existing RedBoot loader. The apex functionality is about right, but I need to be able to do TFTP transfers.
Dec 03 14:09:21 <rwhitby> thraxisp: we'll accept any patches.  Marc was going to look at it, but that was at least 6 months ago.
Dec 03 14:10:34 <thraxisp> Some old emails pointed to some licensing problems with Intel's microcode and drivers. Is that still an issue? or was it just a problem for Debian
Dec 03 14:13:01 <rwhitby> there are now 2 open source drivers, both of which require a microcode blob.  luckily, the blob has recently been relicensed by Intel to be distributable in binary form.  So it's non-free for Debian.
Dec 03 14:13:13 <rwhitby> (but the installer could pull it from a non-free repo)
Dec 03 14:15:31 <thraxisp> Do you have any pointers to the drivers?
Dec 03 14:16:13 <rwhitby> both are in the nslu2-linux kernel svn rpeo
Dec 03 14:16:14 <rwhitby> repo
Dec 03 14:16:29 <rwhitby> http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/patches/
Dec 03 14:16:45 <rwhitby> 2.6.21 has the old open source drivers (the ones currently in use by nslu2-linux and debian).
Dec 03 14:17:06 <rwhitby> 2.6.23 has the new open source drivers (the ones which have been submitted to l-a-k and netdev recently)
Dec 03 14:17:17 <rwhitby> apex has neither.
Dec 03 14:17:42 <rwhitby> but if someone want to contribute a patch, we'd love to have network support in Apex too :-)
Dec 03 14:18:29 <thraxisp> I'll look into it. I already added SST Flash support.
Dec 03 14:19:07 <rwhitby> Do you have Marc's email address?
Dec 03 14:19:44 <rwhitby> I'd be very happy to help you get networking going, as would mwester and jacques I expect.
Dec 03 14:19:55 <rwhitby> And probably dumfrac too.
Dec 03 14:20:49 <thraxisp> No. I started working on this last week.
Dec 03 14:23:19 <rwhitby> ok, I /msg'd you Marc's email address.
Dec 03 14:24:36 <thraxisp> I'll look into the patches today. It's a snow day (stuck home because of a foot of snow that fell last night).
Dec 03 14:25:16 <kolla> heh
Dec 03 14:25:22 <kolla> that's all it takes? :)
Dec 03 14:27:02 <thraxisp> http://webcam.city.ottawa.on.ca/trafficvideo/streams/s45/s0.jpg
Dec 03 14:27:26 <thraxisp> besides, I get more work done here. :)
Dec 03 14:28:11 <kolla> :)
Dec 03 14:32:17 <joshin> Snow in Ottawa?  That means that there's about to be a huge influx of old Canadians heading here.
Dec 03 14:32:35 * joshin <- Arizona
Dec 03 21:41:36 <CIA-20> 03bzhou * r7391 10optware/trunk/platforms/packages-slugosbe.mk: vlc: demoted on slugosbe
Dec 03 21:42:32 <ka6sox-laptop> broken there too?
Dec 04 01:33:01 <CIA-20> 03bzhou * r7392 10optware/trunk/platforms/packages-slugosle.mk: slugosle BROKEN_PACKAGES
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