From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 13:31:07 +0000 Subject: A good sub-architecture to base new ports on? In-Reply-To: <4FB5343D.5090509@yahoo.es> References: <4FB5343D.5090509@yahoo.es> Message-ID: <201205181331.07566.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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