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14:25.00rammy2ehh
14:25.39rammy2how do i get my kernel to use the "initrd.gz" located in /dev/mtdblock4 as a root-fs expanded to the ram?
14:25.51rammy2the rootfs is ready and packad to that initrd.gz
14:26.09rammy2but now i have to mess up with the kernelparams.. and dunno where to start
14:27.11rammy2first, he has to mount the /dev/mtdblock4 with jffs2 as filesystem, then he has to make that ramdisk in /dev/ram0 with ext3 as filesystem?
14:27.21NAiLare you trying to use a initrd with openslug?
14:27.59rammy2no, but i want to learn sth from openslug
14:28.06rammy2i built my own rootfs
14:28.12rammy2and my own kernel
14:28.18rammy2now, i wanna get it to boot
14:28.32NAiLhmm
14:28.41rammy2i have the initrd.gz ready
14:28.43NAiLwhy not just use the stock openslug setup and modify that? :)
14:28.52rammy2nah.. :)
14:29.12rammy2to big and (sorry) not good for my use
14:29.45rammy2have to use it with perl and libdeviceserial-port for controlling an rfid-reader (but without any nfs/usbstick/harddisk storage)
14:29.58NAiLWell, iirc, initrd (or initramfs) is appended to the kernel.
14:30.21rammy2appended?
14:30.48NAiLyes, but I think there's a problem with using an kernel+initrd that is larger than 1mb
14:30.50rammy2to fit in the 1mb big partition where the kernel has to get in? ;) lol!
14:31.15NAiLHave you tried ucslugc btw?
14:31.23rammy2nope
14:31.36NAiLWith ucslugc you might get enough space to have a tarball on the flash that you extract to ram
14:31.43rammy2i built my own uclibc+busybox+perl system
14:32.03rammy2works fine... but has to be bootet ;)
14:32.09NAiLucslugc uses uclibc+thumb+busybox
14:32.16NAiLie, it's quite small
14:32.17rammy2thumb?
14:32.25NAiLyes, 16bit arm instruction set
14:32.30rammy2hm
14:32.30NAiLinstead of 32
14:32.56rammy2my initrd is 3,6mb big
14:33.04NAiLit's as small as we get it, I think. There's no filesystem support or anything in it by default.
14:33.16rammy2and holds a complete rootfs including perl
14:33.25rammy2my kernel is 987kb gib
14:34.33NAiLusing thumb reduces the binary sizes with ~20%
14:34.57VoodooZ_LogNAiL, morning.
14:35.11VoodooZ_LogHow did the builds go?
14:35.12NAiLI think what you want is basically to checkout the ucslugc distro, modify busybox to suit, add a perl RDEPENDS
14:35.22NAiLVoodooZ_Log: they're all finished :)
14:35.53NAiLThat way, you don't need to duplicate busybox (which it seems you are doing now)
14:35.57VoodooZ_Loggood. no show-stoppers then.
14:36.16NAiLnot on the compiling part, no. It won't be released until after the weekend though
14:37.14VoodooZ_Lognp
14:37.34VoodooZ_LogI'll be keep an eye out for news on the web page.
14:38.48rammy2eehh.. that can't be true.. it has to be possible to use such an ramdisk wich is placed on the flash...
14:39.10rammy2i compete so far.. and now, it hangs at such a point..
14:39.18NAiLrammy2: possible? Dunno. Easy, don't think so ;-)
14:39.54NAiLBut why insist on a tarball? jffs2 has compression built-in. If you need more compression, and don't care about writing to the fs, you can switch to cramfs.
14:42.12rammy2hm because my rootfs is about 14mb large
14:42.31rammy2and it would get into the /dev/mtdblock wich is about 6mb big
14:43.47rammy2eek
14:43.54rammy2theres a kernelparam
14:43.56rammy2initrd=0xc0800000,4M
14:44.03rammy2but how do i get that memoryadress?
14:44.53NAiLlook at the address used by RedBoot, then add a mb ;)
14:45.12rammy2"a mb"?
14:45.20NAiL(if your initrd is flashed instead of the jffs2)
14:45.26rammy2why 1?
14:45.46NAiLRedBoot loads the kernel from a specific offset. The kernel "partition" is 1mb
14:46.25NAiLactually, the kernel should print the redboot partition table on boot
14:46.44NAiL0x00060000-0x00160000 : "Kernel"
14:46.45NAiL0x00160000-0x00180000 : "Ramdisk"
14:46.45NAiL0x00180000-0x007e0000 : "Flashdisk"
14:46.45NAiL0x007e0000-0x00800000 : "FIS directory"
14:47.32NAiLthough... I doubt the kernel tries to read the initrd from flash...
14:59.23rammy2hmm kk ill try it
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21:17.07t[cc]smarsalut. hat allenfalls jemand binaries für einen proxy ? squid oder tinyproxy evtl ?
21:21.44NAiL?
21:24.08steint[cc]smar, do you want to know if there are any binaries for a proxy in OpenSlug?
21:30.13t[cc]smarstein: yes
21:31.13NAiLsquid is IMHO a *very* unlikely candidate for the slug
21:31.25NAiLmaybe tinyproxy if someone cares to port it
21:31.51steinI don't think there there are any for openslug... Try ipkgfind.nslu2-linux.org
21:31.52t[cc]smarsomewhat yes. but since package DB on nslu2-linux mentionned it for unslung
21:32.01t[cc]smari thought someone should have had it going
21:32.29steinNail, IMHO?
21:32.39NAiLIn my humble opinion
21:32.45stein:-)
21:33.00NAiLThe slug won't be able to run squid in any way I'd deem "useful"
21:33.02t[cc]smari did ipkgfind
21:33.51steinEither build from source or "upgrade" your openslug to opendebianslug (or similar)...
21:34.21t[cc]smarcould somebody try bb tinyprox for openslug for me ? i'm still decomputerized....
21:34.58NAiLneither tinyproxy nor squid is in oe
21:35.11t[cc]smar? thought they should... lemme see.
21:35.43t[cc]smara right. nylon that is
21:35.51t[cc]smaris nylon in ?
21:36.22steintinyproxy is available as binary under opendebianslug...
21:37.32NAiLnylon doesn't appear to be a package. There appears to be packages *for* nylon, but not nylon itself
21:38.46t[cc]smarargh
21:39.10t[cc]smardebianslug gives me some creeps cause they ask for a swap partition right away.
21:39.34steinYou could set up a swap file...
21:39.36t[cc]smarsounds like it will be memory hungry, which is not for waste on slug
21:40.06t[cc]smarcurrently, the slug targeted is on NFS. no good for that
21:40.20steinIt's allways good to have a bit of swap... :-)
21:41.15t[cc]smarthe mailserver slug is allright without. but in principle you are right. execpt for real HW, since nowadays i'd just recommend to up some memory. cheap enough it is.
21:42.25steinTrue, btw, the memory on the slug is very limited. Even ctorrent crashed do to "out-of-memory"... (without swap)....
21:43.30t[cc]smarthat's the reaon i'm a bit sceptic aout debianslug. but i should't be until i checked it out.
21:44.31steinYes, I believe opendebianslug packages are build a little fat... but I haven't noticed any difference from openslug...
21:44.40steinin performance
21:45.40t[cc]smaris there a feed i could check ? maybe i can just peel the binaries out of the packages and have a try.
21:46.17steinwww.debonaras.org I believe... They have a link to a feed.
22:02.19t[cc]smarseems it will work
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22:18.48t[cc]smarwell, seems it works but doesn't meet my needs. checking polipo no
22:18.53t[cc]smarw
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22:55.20t[cc]smarpolipo seems to be the right thing for slug. had very little issues with it. here's the link: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/ - for whoever cares, this is a good addition to OE/openslug
23:39.48t[cc]smarheh, polipo runs clean in 9M RAM
23:41.06t[cc]smarn8 all
23:41.26NAiLnite

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