[ARMedslack] Question/suggestions regarding ARMedslack

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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Hi,

I just joined this mailing list as I was looking at building cheap
enterprise-grade VPN devices out of SheevaPlugs (implementing HA,
Atateful failovers, Firewall, QoS on a single vlan-tagged interface).
Being a long-time Slackware user ARMedslack was obviously the 1st distro
I looked at for this project (there's also Ångström that looks nice...
for it).

First of all looking at the -current branch it appears the latest kernel
used is 2.6.31.1. Is there any plan at using the 2.6.32 kernel for the
next release, even though it's still in -rc stage ATM? Looking at it it
seems it has a few patches for Kirkwood, most importantly (at least for
me) hardware crypto support which is probably a good ides to have for a
VPN (also useful when using crypto disks which seems even more
popular..). I sure can compile it but but I though maybe it could be
considered a showstopper for the 13.0 release since this port hasn't
released it yet...


Secondly, trough the documentation it appears the packages get compiled
in a SheevaPlug or in Qemu (I don't have any plug in my hands yet). I
would feel much more comfortable using a cross-compile environment - I
used to run one from a PowerPC (YDL) for my OpenWRT router and it was
pretty nice. If there's no documentation specific to ARMEdslack I will
build one as I'd like to create images from my dev platform (x86) and
use them straight in Qemu/Sheeva (I'll probably hack the installer too...).


Also it looks like the kernel support UBIFS but there's no instructions
for using it. IMHO it should not only be documented but also the
recommended filesystem as it is much better in many technical aspects. I
would help testing it but I don't have the HW yet :(... Even my first
Qemu installation is a bit rough - I ven't managed to run the setup
successfully yet (it skipped the "A" section, and segfaulted on the 2nd
try) evn though I used the latest version - the host is a bit old
though; slack 11.0.



PS: Could the mailing list be linked to from the main ARMedslack page?
I'm not sure if I missed something but I had to do a Google search to
find it.


Thanks

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Thomas
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