From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:06:12 +0000 From: Boo Message-ID: <4f3801d0-3a4f-4154-bf5f-aefafd5a8a52@o14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <67b4fb8b76d32f954fd53fd84d757a66@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] arm ports update Topicbox-Message-UUID: 208edcea-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 13 май, 06:46, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > The kw port now supports the Guruplug Server Plus, including both > Ethernet interfaces, and probably the other Guruplugs.  booting(8) now > has the necessary instructions to get started.  They are more diverse > than one might like because every version of u-boot we get for a new > board seems to have had the dhcp, bootp and tftp commands tinkered > with to behave slightly differently.  We have two Guruplugs and one > has been stable but the other is prone to random resets (and runs much > warmer than the Sheevaplugs).  I'd be interested in hearing from > anyone else who sees random resets. > > I've imported the flash memory support from native Inferno, other than > the flash translation layer, which was developed for nor flash and is > suspect with nand flash.  flash(3) describes the interface.  It seems > to work on the Kirkwood boards, but I haven't exercised it > extensively.  It does implement software ECC.  /dev/flash looks like > it always returns zero bytes on the igepv2 board, but lack of > documentation makes it a little hard to tell what to expect. Great news! Many thanks!