[ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

[stanley garvey]

On Jun 11, 2013 21:59 "Stuart Winter" <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:

> > > > stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/index.php and dropped the
> > > > slackberry name, also I can report that slackware-current does
> > > > not
> 
> OK great.
> "Download SlackwareArm for Raspberry Pi®."
> 
> You're missing the capitalisation - ARM stands for "Advanced (or
> 'Acorn'
> if you go back further) Risc Machines" (or at least it used to in the
> early 90s - it's probably too
> cool for that now though ;-) ).
> 
> > I'll Correct that ( The whole section needs some polishing and
> > rewriting)
> 
> [..]
> > > > As for issues with the Raspberry Pi, I don't see many, it has no
> > > > real time clock, rc.S needs hacking to remove the annoying
> > > > message,
> > > > and inittab requires patching and that's about it.
> 
> What message? is it from hwclock? Personally I just leave those kind
> of
> messages in place -it looks a bit ugly but at least it's a reminder
> that
> there is no hardware clock.
> 
> > No I meant the annoying message from rc.S about the rootFS being
> > read write. The Raspberry Pi does not honor the ro flag :(
> The only way round this is to use a hacked rc.S, Unless somebody has a
> better idea?
> 
> What needs to be modified in inittab?
> <http://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-current/source
> /a/sysvinit-scripts/sources/doinst.sh.openttyS0>
> 
> Could the change be added into here? The less changes you have to keep
> adding in the better - especially when I'm already doing it for the
> others!
> 
> > yes!
> The Raspberry Pi uses ttyAMA0 could i Suggest:
> 
> 
> egrep -q "Versatile" /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null 2>&1 || egrep -q
> "BCM2708" /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
> sed -i '/^# Local serial lines:/ a\s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty
> 115200 ttyAMA0 vt100' etc/inittab.new || \
> sed -i '/^# Local serial lines:/ a\s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty
> 115200 ttyS0 vt100' etc/inittab.new
> 
> 
> 
> 
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