Re: [gentoo-embedded] Boot hangs on Soekris NET4801

2014-12-25 Thread wireless
On 12/20/2014 01:44 PM, Ed W wrote: On 19/11/2014 22:05, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: Hi, Re-installing Gentoo on this platform because I haven't upgraded it for more than two years... :-/ Grub boots and loads the kernel but hangs after this line: Loading Linux 3.16.5-gentoo ... Just for a quick

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on a Arietta G25

2014-12-06 Thread wireless
On 12/06/14 13:38, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, recently I bought a great little Linux board: Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta) Since I like Gentoo I installed it instead of the provided Debian system. The system I used to compile the kernel is -- of course -- a Gentoo -- Linux

Re: [gentoo-embedded] MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014

2014-11-19 Thread wireless
On 11/19/14 02:41, Manuel Lauss wrote: Hello, I've again uploaded another snapshot of a little-endian softfloat MIPS32 rootfs I maintain for a few of my MIPS toys. It's a complete gentoo installation, with toolchain and a few lightweight desktop environments as well as some networking tools. S

[gentoo-embedded] power monitoring on embedded gentoo

2014-06-07 Thread wireless
With the newest (upower) and some of the legacy power monitoring and measuring tools (ebuilds), what do embedded folks use on minimal, embedded gentoo systems, hopefully robust with a light footprint on resource utilization? Is there something else that works well (non-gui) that is commonly u

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2014-05-30 Thread wireless
On 05/30/14 00:16, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Aside from the iPhone 5s, there isn't really a lot of hardware generally available with arm64 on it. There is the X-Gene X-C1, though it's $5000 USD - I'm planning on getting one, but I'm still waiting on an email from AppliedMicro telling me where

[gentoo-embedded] uefi for QEMU/KVM

2014-05-21 Thread wireless
This may be of interests to the embedded folks not aware of this code. https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/UEFIforQEMU James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Re: Assistance with Stabilization Testing for Arm

2014-05-21 Thread wireless
On 05/19/14 20:49, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/2014 07:53 PM, Yury German wrote: Hello, I am currently part of the Security Team, and am undergoing the final approval for a full time member of the security team. I am also interested i

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2014-05-21 Thread wireless
On 05/21/14 07:06, Christopher Friedt wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM, wireless mailto:wirel...@tampabay.rr.com>> wrote: So, I was also wondering if anyone had any Aarch64 gentoo-embedded examples to put out for review or into the gentoo handbook? That's actually a

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2014-05-06 Thread wireless
On 05/06/14 17:26, Christopher Friedt wrote: It seems fairly interesting from a hardened perspective. I don't think it's necessarily a replacement though. Well it's not (lilblue) a full embedded system, but an interestingly related work to the convergence of embedded and full linux systems.

[gentoo-embedded] Trace-cmd Ftrace & KernelShark

2013-12-06 Thread wireless
Background: trace-cmd, Function Trace and KernelShark look like very useful tools for embedded Gentoo. I did manage to find an existing overlay of unknown quality. [1] Has anyone on this list used or have any comments on these tools or equivalents? [2] Has anyone compared KernelShark to the

Re: [gentoo-embedded] SOLVED planning a flash DOM x86 embedded system

2013-10-24 Thread wireless
On 10/24/13 12:41, Francisco Ares wrote: It works now! It seems that blog shows an old style syntax. Found others, though, like the following: http://www.viraj.org/b2evolution/blogs/index.php/2007/05/03/ubuntu_server_and_unionfs but for nowadays Gentoo systems (at least) the correct syntax

[gentoo-embedded] grub 2 on ARM?

2013-10-07 Thread wireless
Hello, Anyone done this with embedded gentoo? https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/ACPI/AcpiOnArndaleUefi ZFS, CEPH or BTRFS on Arm (15) ? curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] A-15 Dev boards

2013-04-29 Thread wireless
On 04/27/13 20:26, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 26 April 2013 16:45:45 wireless wrote: On 04/26/13 16:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: depending on your exact needs, i might recommend a Samsung Arm Chromebook: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os- devices/samsung

Re: [gentoo-embedded] A-15 Dev boards

2013-04-26 Thread wireless
On 04/26/13 16:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 09 April 2013 11:49:48 wireless wrote: I've been looking for an Arm (A15) dev board; hopefully to get embedded gentoo installed and working on an A15. Here is what I found: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/samsung-launches-ar

Re: [gentoo-embedded] A-15 Dev boards

2013-04-09 Thread wireless
is at http://www.howchip.com/shop/item.php?it_id=AND5250B John On 4/9/2013 8:49 AM, wireless wrote: Hello, I've been looking for an Arm (A15) dev board; hopefully to get embedded gentoo installed and working on an A15. Here is what I found: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/samsung-launches-arndale-

[gentoo-embedded] A-15 Dev boards

2013-04-09 Thread wireless
Hello, I've been looking for an Arm (A15) dev board; hopefully to get embedded gentoo installed and working on an A15. Here is what I found: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/samsung-launches-arndale-community-board/ Has anyone got embedded gentoo working on a Arm (A15) based dev board that i

[gentoo-embedded] software and license (Ed W)

2012-04-25 Thread wireless
Hello Ed W et. al, I remember about the software listings and license issues you have discussed recently on this list. I was looking at an Archos 101 tablet http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/tabletpc.html?country=kg&lang=en And started looking at the Angstrom Linux distro (which i

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Install manual for Pandaboard

2012-04-23 Thread wireless
On 04/23/12 10:10, Manuel Lauss wrote: I'm really curious about any plans for E. Gentoo support on the Omap 5 (ARM 15) platform ??? C-A9 and C-A15 are implementations of ARMv7. Identical userspace works on both. Best case, all you need are different kernels for omap4 and 5 (or the Cortex-A C

[gentoo-embedded] Install manual for Pandaboard

2012-04-23 Thread wireless
Hello, I was just looking at the G embedded handbook and noticed there is not link to the: "Documentation about installing Gentoo on the Pandaboard" like the other supported boards listed. Maybe link or copy this document: http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/pandaboard/install.xml Oversight? Int

Re: [gentoo-embedded] GPS board

2012-04-17 Thread wireless
On 04/17/12 05:15, Ed W wrote: I think with a decent browser on your tablet you can fairly easily build decent web apps these days, especially if you don't need to target IE. To my eye this dramatically simplifies the problem because you can use off the shelf components and focus on the software

Re: [gentoo-embedded] GPS board

2012-04-16 Thread wireless
On 04/16/12 08:42, Ed W wrote: On 14/04/2012 19:34, wireless wrote: So, I'm looking at options to build/hack a GPS device, combined with some sort of embedded gentoo friendly Tablet. I'm thinking of multiple channels of audio output so it is a 5.1 mp3 player too, for a boat or a RV

Re: [gentoo-embedded] GPS board

2012-04-14 Thread wireless
On 04/14/12 14:38, Peter Stuge wrote: wireless wrote: I have not formally researched open source mapping efforts, so any feedback on that issue is keenly welcome. Start with http://openstreetmap.org/ //Peter EXCELLENT! OK so to help create maps, I'm think of designing (cobbling tog

[gentoo-embedded] GPS board

2012-04-14 Thread wireless
Hello Gentoo-embedded world, Well, I just had my Garmin 1490T die and it's only 2 years old. (a little bit hacked off about this, as the unit was well cared for. So, I'm looking at options to build/hack a GPS device, combined with some sort of embedded gentoo friendly Tablet. I'm thinking of m

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Licence compliance - capturing all source files used to make a build?

2012-03-01 Thread wireless
On 02/29/12 09:46, Ed W wrote: Whilst the above is largely targeting GPL type licences, are there other things I should consider for other licences? Other things I need to ensure I distribute for GPL? Any pointers to (simple) documentation on how one can be a compliant open source citizen..? E

[gentoo-embedded] ARM manuals

2012-02-29 Thread wireless
Hello, I know my ideas to main stream Gentoo on arm, are not very popular with gentoo devs. A while back there was talk of Gentoo and Ubuntu exploring some deeper form of cooperation; a merger of sorts. Surely an interesting idea. Curiously, Ubuntu seems to be able to publish documents, very eas

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Arm

2011-12-16 Thread wireless
chips or SOC, please drop me a line. James On 12/15/11 13:50, John Poole wrote: > Looks like 2012 - 3rd Quarter for Texas Instruments availability of > their OMAP5430/2 > based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM, wireless <mailt

[gentoo-embedded] Arm

2011-12-15 Thread wireless
Hello, Anyone found any development boards or such base on an implementation of the A-15 offering from Arm? Anyone going to work on a port of embedded Gentoo to one of the A-15 chips/SOC any time soon? http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a15.php James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Arm based netbook?

2011-10-05 Thread wireless
> Being as I work for Genesi (see my sig) I have a debug board, when I > need it (technically I don't since I had to give mine up but if I > needed to I could get one from someone else in the company) worst case > scenario, if something bad happens I can boot from an SD card and fix > it. Um that

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Arm based netbook?

2011-10-05 Thread wireless
this is good news, I was just looking at the A8 version. Do you have minicom working on the usb ports (using an FTDI usb-2-serial chip?). Have you cobbled together some sort of wired ethernet (usb-2-ethernet) of some type or do you just use wireless Ethernet? You gonna put a doc into the hadboo

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Arm based netbook?

2011-10-05 Thread wireless
On 10/05/11 13:06, wireless wrote: > Hello, > Anyone set up embedded linux on an ARM (A8 or A9) > based chip? Sorry for being unclear: Anyone set up embedded Gentoo on an ARM (A8 or A9) based netbook? ( Asus Eee Transformer or such?) If so which make or model? Caveats? > Anyone w

[gentoo-embedded] Arm based netbook?

2011-10-05 Thread wireless
Hello, Anyone set up embedded linux on an ARM (A8 or A9) based chip? Anyone working on an early version of the A15 chip with embedded linux? If so, got any note or information related to the installation process? James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] About howto install Gentoo on Toshiba AC100

2011-06-17 Thread wireless
> As a newbie to AC100 and Gentoo-Embedded, > I just trying to following with installation guide: > http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/page/Gentoo > http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/tegra2/install.xml Make sure you look at the gentoo arm handbook for relevant ideas on this installation: http://www

[gentoo-embedded] Best (US) carrier for eGentoo on Cell ?

2011-06-15 Thread wireless
Hello, I just looked here: [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/CDMA I have not kept up with the latest offerings that purport to allow users control (embedded Gentoo) over the operating system on their cell phones. So what is the best phone/network-access to purchase ? Previously it was T-mobile

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2011-04-15 Thread wireless
On 04/15/11 08:42, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Yar! > > I feel like such a pirate right now ;-) > > Crossdev succeeds for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu to x86_64-pc-linux-bionic. > After this, I'll probably be working on a cross-armv7a version to > support e.g. the BeagleBoard. Next, will probably be the P

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2011-04-06 Thread wireless
On 04/06/11 10:30, Christopher Friedt wrote: > I would certainly be willing to 'own' some bugs within some reasonable > bounds (e.g. bionic's libstdc++ doesn't support exceptions... the > pthread lib doesn't support pthread_cancel). It's more or less > intended as a platform for managed code - .ie

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2011-04-06 Thread wireless
On 04/06/11 10:52, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Also... an important couple of features: > > TLS works on certain hardware (e.g. with hardware supported tls, like > armv7a), but not on all architectures, like in GNU [1], [2]. It's > probably better to blanket-disable this for now via a portage prof

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2011-04-06 Thread wireless
On 04/05/11 22:39, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Hi James, > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:40 PM, wireless wrote: >> Apologies for my ignorances. This link went a long >> way to present what is bionic libc: >> >> http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dol

Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

2011-04-05 Thread wireless
On 04/05/11 16:15, Christopher Friedt wrote: > bionic > libc cross-toolchain Apologies for my ignorances. This link went a long way to present what is bionic libc: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html cheers, James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] My Catalyst experience

2011-03-24 Thread wireless
On 03/24/11 12:37, Kfir Lavi wrote: > I have asked in few past emails to the list about catalyst, > One needs to acknowledge that catalyst holds a lot of pearls in the > code, and this is its power. Well this sound like a wonderful idea. Gentoo has been accepted as a Google "summer of code

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Wind River Linux experience

2011-03-23 Thread wireless
On 03/23/11 05:46, Kfir Lavi wrote: > I'm trying to migrate a big company to Gentoo. > This company have a contract with Wind River for support and use. > I don't have any experience with Wind River, so I would be happy to > hear your experience with it, and what it's pros and cons. > Regards, >

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Anyone got a Soekris 5501 board can test a trivial kernel patch ?

2011-03-18 Thread wireless
On 03/18/11 05:27, Ed W wrote: > Hi, I'm submitting a patch for the Alix board LED driver and want to > submit a similar cleanup for the 5501 LED driver. Anyone got a board > and a few minutes to test a kernel patch for me please? > > Ed W > > http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm I have an al

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Suggestions for per user bandwidth accounting over a router device?

2011-03-11 Thread wireless
On 03/11/11 07:41, Ed W wrote: > This is almost certainly the wrong place to ask, but have any clever > folks here got some ideas for doing per user (and eventually per > user/per protocol) accounting for data crossing a router box (running > gentoo)? Architecture Via an iptables router or transp

Re: [gentoo-embedded] CBUILD= HOSTCC=-gcc

2011-01-04 Thread wireless
On 01/03/11 16:11, Christoph Spielmann wrote: > Well in terms of crossdev i686-gentoo-linux-gnu-gcc is not a valid > target (just look at the output of crossdev --help). If you want to > build x86-code on a machine using a x86-compiler why would you want to > use a cross-compilation-environment an

Re: [gentoo-embedded] SATA on Pandaboard?

2010-12-09 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > ST SPEAr1310 > http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/product/250658.jsp > http://www.st.com/internet/com/TECHNICAL_RESOURCES/TECHNICAL_LITERATURE/DATA_BRIEF/CD00274166.pdf > > Dual-core Cortex A9 embedded MPU for communications > > CPU subsystem: >  2x ARM Cortex A9 cores, up t

Re: [gentoo-embedded] SATA on Pandaboard?

2010-12-07 Thread wireless
>> With that kind of processing power and DVI & HDMI out, I >> had a hard time believing there is no SATA native >> or hacked hardware solution. > > I think you'll have to believe it. :) SATA requires transceivers > in about the same class as DVI/HDMI. I can certainly imagine that > only one set

Re: [gentoo-embedded] SATA on Pandaboard?

2010-12-07 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > wireless wrote: >> I did not see a SATA or IDE bus support? Is this possible? Or is >> SD my only choice? > > I would ask in the right community to get better answers. > But the pictures at least clearly show USB connectors besides SD. I looked

[gentoo-embedded] SATA on Pandaboard?

2010-12-05 Thread wireless
Hello, Well color me a convert! I just was reading about the panda board. It looks very cool. I did not see a SATA or IDE bus support? Is this possible? Or is SD my only choice? Also, kudos to Armin for this doc: http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/pandaboard/install.xml#doc_chap10 http://www

Re: [gentoo-embedded] x86 flags

2010-11-23 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > What I do for any build is look carefully at the profile and override > any things I don't like in there. It might make sense to just create > a new profile. /etc/profile /usr/portage/profiles Some more details would be keen here. I've never hacked a custom pro

[gentoo-embedded] x86 flags

2010-11-23 Thread wireless
Hello, Well, I got a alix.2D3+b board with an onboard Geode LX. I intend to set up embedded Gentoo on this system, eventually. But first, I want to set up some old x86 hardware on 4G CF cards, along with the Alix and TS boards, just to get all of the hardware up and working. I have these (old PC

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: HiTech-C question

2010-11-15 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > It's not a realistic spec for any microcontroller. Please try again, > with more care. You can get most of what you want in a single package > but not all of it. Unless of course you make your own.. Take an Actel > M1A3P250 with an ARM Cortex-M1 hardcore, then you could eas

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: HiTech-C question

2010-11-15 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > Isn't the arrival of really cheap ARM-s, like M0, puts PIC and AVR and the > like > in legacy category you won't ever look again? Assuming you can match the > hardware side: UARTs, counters, voltage, etc. the power consumption of today > ARM-s made on modern process is real

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: HiTech-C question

2010-11-15 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > Checking on IAR's website, they support some PIC processors, but not > the PIC16 processor currently involved. Deal with a salesman via email on IAR offerings. Often they have versions not found published. IAR has an outstanding (few) compiler developers. Best in the micro

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: HiTech-C question

2010-11-15 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm using HiTech-C for the first time. I agree with both previous responses. If you insist on closed sources, look here: http://www.microchipc.com/ ==> Pic C Sample Code and PIC FAQ However, as one who has worked with traditional development environments

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Linux for Phytec phyCORE-i.MX35

2010-11-14 Thread wireless
Fabulous! Hopefully it get's included in the handbook. Previously you wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a tutorial > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Phytec_phyCORE-iMX35/Gentoo/Desktop > how to cross-compile Gentoo Linux for the board Phytec phyCORE-i.MX35 > http://www.phytec.com/products/rdk/ARM-

Re: [gentoo-embedded] I want to give a talk about Gentoo in our local Linux group - slides/format recommendations?

2010-11-13 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > Also make sure to mention the PMS - Package Manager Specification. > It's really outstanding documentation. > emerge app-doc/pms or http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml WOW! This is fantastic. So Paludis is used in embedded Gentoo? What is the explicit listing of th

[gentoo-embedded] ARM Heaven?

2010-10-06 Thread wireless
Hello, This Dual Cortex A9 ARM chip is loaded, including (2) GigE ports and (3) FastE ports My (ST) vendor rep says only the 'Big Boys' can get this iron right now (massive tantrum in my office going on right nowUGLY) Any Euro friends got a connection to get a dev board for this D

Re: [gentoo-embedded] JTAG (Linux) article

2010-09-14 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > wireless wrote: >> The device/article are based on software, found in portage >> (very cool, but a version bump is needed)... >> >> http://openocd.berlios.de >> >> dev-embedded/openocd > > There haven't been any more

Re: [gentoo-embedded] JTAG (Linux) article

2010-09-14 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > Hello, > > > There is an article in the September 2010 Embedded System > Magazine, which features a story about how to use a JTAG > (less than $100 usd) on an embedded linux kernel for debugging. > > > If anyone is interested, drop me some email and I'll forward > the zi

[gentoo-embedded] JTAG (Linux) article

2010-09-14 Thread wireless
Hello, There is an article in the September 2010 Embedded System Magazine, which features a story about how to use a JTAG (less than $100 usd) on an embedded linux kernel for debugging. If anyone is interested, drop me some email and I'll forward the zip file to you: cmp_esd0910_pdf.zip in ca

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OSWALD

2010-08-05 Thread wireless
Previously you wrote: > On 2010-08-02 Mon 08:03, wireless wrote: >> Congratulations to whoever is working this behind the scenes.. > > Thanks, I've been the main software dev behind the OSWALD and have > enjoyed using Gentoo for a number of years now. I thought the OS

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OSWALD

2010-08-02 Thread wireless
>> Oregon State University: > When I google for "OSWALD development kit", and click the first link I > get the following. > https://admtn.ucsadm.oregonstate.edu/ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=369 Look what I found: " If you're interested in helping out, check out the current tickets

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OSWALD

2010-08-02 Thread wireless
> James, > When I google for "OSWALD development kit", and click the first link I > get the following. > https://admtn.ucsadm.oregonstate.edu/ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=369 > > The non devkit looks about $100 cheaper. Interesting. The are using a OMAP 3530 (Cortex A8) core Neo

[gentoo-embedded] OSWALD

2010-08-02 Thread wireless
Hello, There is a very cool plug for gentoo embedded in the August 2010 issue of the Linux Journal, from the good folks at Oregon State University: "Moving to a bigger development community, such as Gentoo, will minimize risks in the future." Congratulations to whoever is working this behind th

Re: [gentoo-embedded] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread wireless
Ed W wrote: > The concept seems interesting though and as you say, exactly what an > overlay should help with. Ah, yes the concept is reasonable. I would think that working with smaller distros/elinux folks, maybe those that have sprung up from LFS, would be a better fit to build momentum for th

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-15 Thread wireless
Arkadi Shishlov wrote: > Isn't C64+ sufficient for H.264? Especially if its OMAP4? Yes. However, if you include a chip from a vendor, such as TI, then there are never every any royalties due. Much todo about h.264 royalties buzzing on the net. Beside a h.264 chip and Arm is very low power and t

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-07 Thread wireless
Arkadi Shishlov wrote: > On 04/06/10 01:45, wireless wrote: >> such, but, I'm thinking more along the Cortex A9 family >> of processors >> > http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12843&contentId=5

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-07 Thread wireless
Ed W wrote: > Just a note, but I got a quote on a bunch of the LannerInc boards and > they seem quite affordable for what you get. You need to call them to > get your own prices, but they seem to run about $300-400 depending on > board and spec for the Atom devices with lots of network ports. >

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-05 Thread wireless
Arkadi Shishlov wrote: >> Any ARM processor based suggestions? > BeagleBoard + USB Ethernet? > or this http://www.olimex.com/dev/sam9-L9260.html > The first one might be a Linux device: > http://www.ovislinkcorp.co.uk/wais1000g.htm > http://www.ovislinkcorp.co.uk/WL-8000VPN.htm Yea, they look

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-05 Thread wireless
Janusz Syrytczyk wrote: >>> http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?started_from_home=1 > In my local store MikroTik is much cheaper (about 20-30% each) and its just > here, handy, ready to rock. Sorry, nothing wrong with MIPS or PPC, just not what I'm looking for. ARM is the target architecture..

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-01 Thread wireless
Ed W wrote: > It's not ARM based, but the Alix boards are incredibly cheap ($100) and > come in a 3 port configuration. Loads of horsepower and adequate RAM > > I can't think of a 3 port ARM board off the top of my head, but without > looking I think that the Linksys and DLink "linux friendly"

[gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports

2010-04-01 Thread wireless
too effort, are most welcome. Raw iptables is what I'm use to using. A wireless port would be good but not required. James

Re: [gentoo-embedded] file system question

2010-03-30 Thread wireless
Ed W wrote: > In addition to what everyone else has already noted you really need to > state your tradeoff between lifetime of the flash cards and minimising > the risk of loosing data. Wow, this sounds like a PC programmer's statement and not how an embedded designer would solve the problem.

Re: [gentoo-embedded] High Speed Serial Problem

2010-03-15 Thread wireless
David Relson wrote: > I'm porting a DOS application to Linux and have encountered problems > with the high speed serial devices from which the app receives data. Well here is link to a home brewed Serial Chip buffering circuit, that may better allow you to look at the signals and protocol inter

Re: [gentoo-embedded] MIPS32 Rootfs

2010-02-11 Thread wireless
Manuel Lauss wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM, wireless wrote: >> Do you have a listing of 32 bit mips dev boards your >> codebase works with? > > It should work on any little-endian MIPS32 core. As I explained in the > original posting, my target

Re: [gentoo-embedded] MIPS32 Rootfs

2010-02-11 Thread wireless
Manuel Lauss wrote: > Hello! > > For the last few years I've been "maintaining" a small Gentoo installation for > FPU-less little-endian MIPS32 processors (my main target is the "Alchemy" > line). > > I've put up a tarball of the actual filesystem as well as a collection of > individual packages

Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: ? Embedded Patent Fraud

2010-02-09 Thread wireless
Peter Stuge wrote: > wireless wrote: >> This patent looks like the poster child for embedded system, >> that should not have been issued. > > Pretty much, it looks like. It covers any CPU+FPGA system where the > FPGA is used for any of signal I/O, co-processing, HID, graph

[gentoo-embedded] OT: ? Embedded Patent Fraud

2010-02-04 Thread wireless
Hello, It's not often that I would interject a subject like this into a Gentoo discuss. However, from my reading of this patent, the awardee may be able to cause significant grief to anyone that use a uP, FPGA, or such with at CPU/GPU. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Android phones

2009-11-05 Thread wireless
Mike Dunn wrote: > >> IMHO - the best (current) device you can use for a hackable handheld >> is the Nokia N900 - I wish I had one myself. >> > > If you're just looking for a hacker project and not concerned about > using a smartphone from the latest generation, Ugh, that is exactly what I w

[gentoo-embedded] Android phones

2009-10-30 Thread wireless
Hello, Can the gentoo embedded, openmoko, or any other embedded linux stack run on the (verizon) Android (verizon droid) phone? Isn't the Android(2.0) phone just somebody's Linux stack? If so, is it an open/hackable embedded linux stack for an Arm? Verizon(Droid) is the one my son will not shu

Re: [gentoo-embedded] personal compile-farm ?

2009-09-05 Thread wireless
Christopher Friedt wrote: > I'm primarily interested in something that uses a smaller form-factor > for power, noise pollution, and space reasons, but 4 to 8 cores > probably doesn't fit in that class. > > Most certainly I'll be installing the maximum amount of RAM possible - > i do practically

Re: [gentoo-embedded] pxa270 cflags?

2009-08-18 Thread wireless
Christopher Friedt wrote: > I'd really like to get involved > with designing a _good_ handset from the ground up, if only there was > some sort of monetary incentive. > > I really think OM needs to buckle down if they're going to be > releasing a new model based on Samsung's 6410, and I mean in

Re: [gentoo-embedded] newbie - building bootable image for ARM target on I686 host

2009-08-07 Thread wireless
Brenden Walker wrote: > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:09:56 +0200 Karl Hiramoto wrote: >> Brenden Walker wrote: >>> I'm new to embedded linux, but been using Gentoo for a long time.. > >>> time the plan was to use QEMU to demonstrate the basic process and >>> for use in developing our application, so a

Re: [gentoo-embedded] cell for embedded gentoo

2009-07-20 Thread wireless
Ed W wrote: > wireless wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm planning on getting a cell phone so I can put openmoko >> or embedded Gentoo on it. I live in Florida and >> > > A large part of the problem seems to be that the phone modules > themselves require

Re: [gentoo-embedded] cell for embedded gentoo

2009-07-18 Thread wireless
> > wireless wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm planning on getting a cell phone so I can put openmoko >> or embedded Gentoo on it. I live in Florida and >> I think T mobile is the only operator for such phones > > David Ford wrote: > why would

Re: [gentoo-embedded] cell for embedded gentoo

2009-07-18 Thread wireless
> On Friday 17 July 2009 15:47:13 wireless wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm planning on getting a cell phone so I can put openmoko >> or embedded Gentoo on it. I live in Florida and >> I think T mobile is the only operator for such phones. >> >> Is t

[gentoo-embedded] Re: cell for embedded gentoo

2009-07-18 Thread wireless
wireless wrote: > Hello, > > I'm planning on getting a cell phone so I can put openmoko > or embedded Gentoo on it. I live in Florida and > I think T mobile is the only operator for such phones. > > Is this (Android) phone going to be to be converted to > embedded G

[gentoo-embedded] cell for embedded gentoo

2009-07-17 Thread wireless
Hello, I'm planning on getting a cell phone so I can put openmoko or embedded Gentoo on it. I live in Florida and I think T mobile is the only operator for such phones. Is this (Android) phone going to be to be converted to embedded Gentoo in a reasonable fashion? If not, I'm looking for a 'tur

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm11 tool chain

2009-06-30 Thread wireless
n general, we do not "top post" on gentoo lists Very cool. THX, James > -Original Message- > From: wireless [mailto:wirel...@tampabay.rr.com] > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:09 PM > To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm1

Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm11 tool chain

2009-06-29 Thread wireless
Melton, Jason wrote: > I am trying to build a cross compiler for the arm11 (the i.MX31 in > particular > http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX31). > To build for this embedded processor would I use: I have not experience with this chipset, but, I have often thought

Re: [gentoo-embedded] sparcv8 gcc

2009-06-23 Thread wireless
óÅÒÇÅÊ íÉÒÏÎÏ× wrote: >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.0/gcc/SPARC-Options.html#SPARC-Options >>> You'll need to use -mno-fpu on the CFLAGS. And again, the -softfloat- >>> thing on the CHOST is gentoo-specific and only applies to ARM. >> Thanks! i'll try it as soon as i can. > Hi. > man

Re: [gentoo-embedded] compiling on openmoko

2009-04-23 Thread wireless
Nicola Mfb wrote: > 2009/4/23 Previdi Roberto : >> ewithoutu much effort. The remaining problem is that each package >> configure phase is very slow, i think because of the slow disk access >> (it must read/write on the microsd card..). >> so, is there any tested way to speed up everything? i used

Re: [gentoo-embedded] pc (usb) based logic analyzers

2009-03-31 Thread wireless
Mike Frysinger wrote: >> If you are looking for a full blown logic analyzer >> then there are many listed in most Circuit cellar magazines >> (embedded hackery). > > never heard of this magazine It's more hardware and traditional embedded; low end devices (like 8 and 16 bit micros and such, but

Re: [gentoo-embedded] pc (usb) based logic analyzers

2009-03-31 Thread wireless
Mike Frysinger wrote: > what do people use for their logic analyzers needs ? i'm looking for > something that: > - is portable (smaller the better) > - usb based > - runs under Linux (preferably using open source software) > - at least 50mhz > - at least 8 probes > and no, i dont want to bui

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Looking for low-latency docs

2009-03-31 Thread wireless
Peter Stuge wrote: > wireless wrote: >> Or for another (mythical) example: >> We used 2 processors, one running a state machine for directly >> reading an array of 20 bit D/A in sub microsecond fashion, and then >> passed the data (like this) to another processor runnin

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Looking for low-latency docs

2009-03-30 Thread wireless
Karl Hiramoto wrote: > wireless wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I'd be curious to see any discussions/links others >> have related to the various options for low-latency >> (kernels &) techniques, either legacy or current, >> that are available/

[gentoo-embedded] Looking for low-latency docs

2009-03-30 Thread wireless
Hello, I'd be curious to see any discussions/links others have related to the various options for low-latency (kernels &) techniques, either legacy or current, that are available/recommended for embedded gentoo. Any other embedded linux distros discussions/links related to low latency are of int

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gnap and google SOC

2009-03-27 Thread wireless
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 19:02:30 wireless wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is GNAP and the Google summer of Code going to >> complete the work on making GNAP current? > With some fixes it is still possible to build GN

Re: [gentoo-embedded] [embedded] first step in programming geode target

2009-03-27 Thread wireless
esa wrote: > Dear users, > > It's my first step to program a embedded system. > It's a industrial PC with a compact flash. On this compact flash, I put > uclibc + busybox. > So, I think, it is not a cross-development. > > Until now, I program on DOS system with a IDE like BORLAND CPP. > I thi

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gnap and google SOC

2009-03-26 Thread wireless
Ned Ludd wrote: >> Does it make sense to try to put embedded gentoo on an old x86 >> machine? (486 or 586)? > > Sure. > > >> If not what embedded nix distro would anyone recommend for these >> very old machines, keeping in mind that kids and teenagers will >> be playing with them for projects.

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gnap and google SOC

2009-03-25 Thread wireless
Ned Ludd wrote: >> Is GNAP and the Google summer of Code going to >> complete the work on making GNAP current? >> Any discussion of the GNAP plans are most welcome. >> I have a bunch of old 486-P1 that I like to >> put GNAP on for kids and teenagers to use >> as the basis of projects and experime

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