Re: SlugOS 4.0 HEAD status update

Michael-Luke Jones wrote:
> This afternoon I have pushed some large changes to org.openembedded.dev.
> I have checked out a clean version of the org.openembedded.dev tree
> and am testing a full build right now.
> 
> SUMMARY OF CHANGES
> The kernel has been upgraded to 2.6.18. I've put in place a new build
> system that grabs patches straight from the kernel SVN repository,
> allowing NSLU2-Linux to have a single site for kernel development.
> 
> USB support, and some other drivers are now compiled as modules. This
> is to reduce the kernel image size to allow a second-stage bootloader
> to be prepended.
> 
> The open source ixp_npe driver is now enabled by default, and thanks
> to this the Intel Access Library has been jettisoned. It autoloads
> correctly on boot, allowing SSH access to the NSLU2. It has not been
> heavily tested.

I can confirm that a SlugOS/BE (OpenSlug) image built from current
nslu2-linux OE monotone head boots and seems to have working ethernet (I
transferred the 40MB 2.6.18.tar.bz2 tarball across ssh/scp to /dev/null
on the slug as a test).

SlugOS/LE doesn't load the microcode (bound to be an endian issue).
When the microcode image is byteswapped, it loads into NPE-A instead of
NPE-B for some reason.  Christian: any idea why that would be?  Is there
documentation of the microcode header format anywhere?

Neither gets the MAC address correct (bound to be an easy fix).

A great start!  Thanks Michael-Luke and Christian!

-- Rod


 
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