[armedslack] Anybody with a SheevaPlug

[Stuart Winter]

> or a uboot bootargs entry that has the info in it. (DB88FXX81) If I'm
> going to progress I'll need a kernel and the arguments to boot it with
> on the sheevaplug. Where might I find this? Any hints? Or is there any
> information on how to modify slackbuild scripts to work with the
> cross-compiler so I can make armv5 EABI slackware packages that will
> work with the kernels I already have? I can work with debian but I
> prefer slackware if I can get it.

Yeah the Debian for it is the EABI; ARMedslack is old abi at the moment -
I'll work on an EABI port once I've got this one polished.

The current Slackware ARM installer only has modules for the ARM Versatile
platform (the name of an ARM dev board - but we only support it through
QEMU).

I've got a working Kernel *and* installer for the kirkwood series.
I've patched a number of packages to detect the SheevaPlug and do
the right thing, too.

The only thing I haven't got right now is a working generic initrd
to boot the installed OS - I can't get the usb/scsi modules to detect
my USB hard disk.  It works in the installer, but I just can't work
out why it's not working in the OS' initrd; but now Jim Hawkins
is going to look at it and he can fix it faster than I can ;-)

I've also written a pretty extensive installation document for installing
onto the SheevaPlug.

I'll upload the updates once I've got that fixed which will hopefully
be tomorrow if not tonight.


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Stuart Winter
www.armedslack.org