RE: armel disk image
Hi,
I can offer some disk hosting space for the image (as long as the
monthly transfers are less than 600 Gb / month).
I tried to download the image from the URL, but got a 403 - Forbidden /
access denied message for the 150Mb image
(http://www.jab.org/armel/armel_2gb.img.gz )
If you guys think that the monthly Bandwidth for the download will be
less than 600Gb / month, send me a working URL link to download the
image and I can put up a site for the download, along with the
appropriate click through license. If you guys believe it will require
more bandwidth than that, I might still be able to work something out (I
have a vested interest in trying to make sure the NSLU2 firmware works
-- It's the basis for an inexpensive robot controller project for high
school kids).
Paul Tan.
(Current project -- http://www.istars-robotics.com )
-----Original Message-----
From: breidenbach@gmail.com [mailto:breidenbach@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
jeff@jab.org
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:34 PM
To: Rod Whitby
Cc: Martin Michlmayr; Paul Tan; Anders Andersen;
debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: armel disk image
>I can investigate the bandwidth and download quota implications of
>hosting the 150MB file on slug-firmware.net, but would strongly prefer
>not to do so
Thanks Rod. For the moment, I stuck the instructions and data
files on my home DSL line. If a brave soul wants to test, I'd definitely
be happy to have feedback.
http://www.jab.org/armel/README.html
If this turns out to be useful, I'll have to find another home both
forbandwidth reasons and probably to make the stupid license
agreement more click-o-rific. Is there a free software ethernet
driver in works, and if so what is its status?
On 5/27/07, Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au> wrote:
> Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> > Ok, I made one too ...
> >
> > Now I need three things - help.
> >
> > 1) A website to post armel-2gb.img.gz. This is presumably
contaminated
> > with the proprietary network driver, so it should be behind one of
those
> > stupid click-through license agreements. There's already similar
armel
> > stuff at http://www.slug-firmware.net - can someone with a
connection
> > there help me? This is a ~150MB file.
>
> This is one of the reasons why the nslu2-linux project carries kernel
> patches which load the proprietary firmware from a separate MTD flash
> partition, which is flashed once and never again modified irrespective
> of the kernel, initramfs or rootfs contents (or modifications to
such).
>
> This isolates the proprietary code, and would mean that you could host
> the 150MB file anywhere (since it would then be DFSG compliant).
>
> We agree on the stupidity of the required click through licenses, and
as
> such we try and miminize the number of times you need to see it to
only
> *once* when you download your very first Debian/NSLU2 flashable image.
>
> Martin, is there any chance of doing this for the Debian kernel?
>
> I can investigate the bandwidth and download quota implications of
> hosting the 150MB file on slug-firmware.net, but would strongly prefer
> not to do so for the reasons above. We really want to restrict that
> site to flashable 8MiB firmware images that contains the proprietary
> code, not complete distro root filesystems.
>
> > 2) I don't actually know how to pull off the firmware currently
flashed
> > to the nslu2. That means I don't have a copy of armel-firmware.bin
> > mentioned in the instructions. How do I do that?
>
> cat /dev/mtdblock* > backup.bin
>
> > I presumably would
> > dump a copy of this on the same website as the armel-2gb.img.gz.
> > Although if it isn't contaminated by the proprietary ethernet
driver, I
> can
> > easily find a home for it. (Joey: is it contaminated or not?)
>
> It is almost guaranteed that an 8MiB firmware image will contain Intel
> proprietary microcode (if not in the last flash block where we put it
> for the open source driver to load it, then in the RedBoot bootloader
in
> the first flash block - unfortunately that copy cannot be used by the
> open source driver due to major microcode version mismatches).
>
> That 8MiB image I would be happy to host on the slug-firmware.net
site.
>
> > 3) I should put these instructions on a wiki or something so that
users
> > can make notes when or if they run into problems. Can some existing
> > Linux / Debian / NSLU provide a wiki page I can edit? I don't really
> > want to run my own wiki.
>
> Feel free to make a new page hanging off
>
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/HomePage
>
> but perhaps
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
>
> would be a better place to consolidate all the armel information.
>
> -- Rod Whitby
> -- NSLU2-Linux Project Lead
>
>
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