[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] lantiq xway: generate ramdisk image by default

Ben Mulvihill ben.mulvihill at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 04:29:04 EDT 2014


If you would that would be great. It is not essential, but
that way all the necessary downloads would be in one place
on the official openwrt site.

Thank you,

Ben 

On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 11:12 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> i can build a ramdisk for the board for the reelase if it is needed to
> install. we do the same for the mikrotik boards.
> 
> 	John
> 
> On 20/07/2014 10:03, Ben Mulvihill wrote:
> > No problem. I'll try to make sure there is a link to a non-official
> > ramdisk image on the wiki. (Along with some installation
> > instructions, which at the moment are lacking!)
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 08:54 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> >> technically correct. however there is a dependency bug left over
> >> from some cargo cult cleanups. this causes the image builder to
> >> not build when ramdisk is enabled. i plan to clean this up post
> >> BB. i will ignore this patch until said time.
> >> 
> >> John
> >> 
> >> On 19/07/2014 15:13, Ben Mulvihill wrote:
> >>> The installation process on nand-based boards using ubi like
> >>> the BTHOMEHUBV2B makes use of a ramdisk image, so it makes
> >>> sense to generate this by default.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ben Mulvihill <ben.mulvihill at gmail.com> --- ---
> >>>  a/target/linux/lantiq/xway/target.mk	2014-07-19
> >>> 14:59:39.691201637 +0200 +++
> >>> b/target/linux/lantiq/xway/target.mk	2014-07-19 
> >>> 12:40:06.101871732 +0200 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ARCH:=mips
> >>> SUBTARGET:=xway BOARDNAME:=XWAY -FEATURES:=squashfs atm mips16
> >>> nand ubifs +FEATURES:=squashfs atm mips16 nand ubifs ramdisk
> >>> CPU_TYPE:=34kc CPU_SUBTYPE:=dsp
> >>> 
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