[ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

[Thorsten Mühlfelder]

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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