Re: WRT54G Support?
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 04:55, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
wrote about 'Re: WRT54G Support?':
> * Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> [2006-02-14 21:53]:
> > > Flash flashout is probably different. That's hard-coded so far and
> > > needs some code to auto-detect it.
> >
> > Since I don't know what this means, it's clear I need to learn a bit
> > more
>
> This is not mips specific at all. Basically, your flash chip is
> partitioned but there's no meta-information about how it's
> partitioned. So there's this bcm kernel file which specifies it.
Aha. I never thought that the flash chip might not hold a partition table
on the first sector. If there's no information on the chip itself, I
suppose auto-detection would just involve looking for superblocks for
known filesystems and/or the header associated with special sections like
the nvram, right?
> It gets tricky for me because I'd like to support more than one
> device, and they may (and do) differ in their flash layout.
I can see that. While my personal itch is my WRT54G 1.1 (16M ram, 4M
flash), I'd like to be able to contribute to a larger project that would
also support my friend's WRT54G 2.0, the newer WRT54GLs, and devices from
other manufacturers that have similar CPU/ram/flash limitations (be they
home routers or not).
Perhaps I just need to add my efforts to the OpenWRT project. Or, maybe
the other projects mentioned on the list like embedian.
> Anyway, from what you say, to me it sounds as if you simply want to
> run OpenWRT and maybe mount additional storage via NFS. But if you
> want to work on the project you described, I won't stop you. ;-)
Yeah, the main issue I have with OpenWRT at this point is the lack of
stable 2.6.x kernel support. But, on further investigation it looks the
next whiterussian may have that -- or at least the development is headed
that way, so perhaps I just need to jump into kamakaze and see if I can't
get something running, just gotta make a JTAG cable before I try and flash
the system.
I would like to see a mips+embeded under the debian banner, at some point,
> > Well, I had problems with debootstrap, too, so I couldn't get a
> > debian system that was suitable to chroot into. If I reproduce the
> > errors, I assume I can get some troubleshooters to help me through
> > it on this list, right?
>
> Sure, or I can just run debootstrap and give you a tar ball.
I'll start with the tarball provided by ths. Thanks for the offer.
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