[ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

Claudio Cavalera claudio.cavalera at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 13:23:54 UTC 2010


Thorsten,
could you please provide some guidelines to put armed slack on the dockstar?
I've explained where I'm stuck at, in the other thread on this ML.
Thanks a lot,
Claudio

2010/9/15 Thorsten Mühlfelder <thenktor at gmx.de>:
> The Dockstar works fine with the Armed Slack kernel. See my message from
> 29.08.2010:
>
>> OK, I've received my Seagate Freeagent Dockstar. I've flashed a new
>> U-Boot loader to it. A description can be found here:
>> http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Setboot
>> http://plugapps.com/os/pogoplug/uboot/
>>
>> The board boots fine when the kirkwood kernel is used, that comes with
>> the mini rootfs. Here is the cpuinfo:
>>
>> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> Processor       : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)
>> BogoMIPS        : 1192.75
>> Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
>> CPU implementer : 0x56
>> CPU architecture: 5TE
>> CPU variant     : 0x2
>> CPU part        : 0x131
>> CPU revision    : 1
>>
>> Hardware        : Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board
>> Revision        : 0000
>> Serial          : 0000000000000000
>
> I've installed the new U-Boot. Make sure the kernel is called uImage and the
> initrd is called uInitrd.
>
>
> Am Wednesday 15 September 2010 11:15:11 schrieb Stuart Winter:
>> > Recently I'm being in touch with the Seagate Dockstar which is a
>> > promising device based on Kirkwood Soc:
>> > http://xkyle.com/2010/07/19/the-seagate-dockstar-a-very-cool-linux-device
>> >/
>>
>> This looks like an interesting device.
>>
>> You'll probably need to build a new
>> kernel to begin with patched with support for the Dockstar, because I
>> don't see anything about the "Dockstar" in the "kirkwood implementations"
>> in the Kernel armedslack ships.  There might be support in linux 2.6.36,
>> in which case I'll add it in when I next update the kernel.
>>
>> Let us know how you get on with it.  Good luck! :)
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