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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: A good sub-architecture to base new ports on?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 13:31:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205181331.07566.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB5343D.5090509@yahoo.es>

On Thursday 17 May 2012, Jorge Amor?s Argos wrote:
> Hi Alexey and co,
> 
> I up-ported Solos open code to Openwrt with Linux 2.6.30. I think the 
> only missing module was ADSL.

Ah, very good!

> Anyway, compiling was successful but I can't tell if it was functional.
> 
> Mainly 2 big issues:
> 
>   * No knowledge how to build the image (I wanted to have a self-lzma
>     image in order to save room)

LZMA support was added to arm linux in 2.6.35, and XZ support some time
after that.

>   * My Solos based router, Xavi 7968, is a bitchy one. I found no way to
>     easily upload firmware into flash. It took me hours to make 1 trial.
> 
> 
> I'll be glad to share the code with whoever need it and maybe we can 
> take those old routers back to a better world.

I think that would be helpful.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-18 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-16 13:16 A good sub-architecture to base new ports on? Alexey Zaytsev
2012-05-16 15:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-17 15:29   ` Alexey Zaytsev
2012-05-17 17:24     ` Jorge Amorós Argos
2012-05-18 13:31       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-05-21 20:19         ` Alexey Zaytsev
2012-05-23 20:41           ` Jorge Amorós Argos
2012-05-28  8:49             ` Volkan K.
2012-05-17 21:04     ` Arnd Bergmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-27 14:08 Volkan K.

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