[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/2] Add ATI IXP PATA driver to x86/64 target

[Sami Olmari]

More so, in general x86 (be it 64 or 32) is diffirent in that way that
there is endless possibilities of devices and configurations, we never can
achieve system that supports everything, nor we want to, in mine opinion...
Instead one can use buildroot (if not imagebuilder) to include just the
stuff one needs to his/hers openwrt build... Granted, that sometimes
involves even tinkering with make kernel_menuconfig or so, but I don't know
muchh better way myself.. As not everything can be "exported" into normal
openwrt menuconfig either...

 Sami Olmari

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Imre Kaloz <kaloz at openwrt.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:02:07 +0200, Felix Kaechele <
> heffer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>>
>> within the Freifunk project in Germany we currently use very low cost
>> thin-clients (FSC Futro S550) for VPN offloading.
>> Those thin-clients have an internal CF card (1GB) attached to the
>> chipset's PATA controller that uses the arcane pata_atiixp driver.
>> This seems like an ideal storage option for booting the device from.
>>
>> I would like to enable OpenWrt to boot from this CF card and therefor
>> would need this driver to be built into the kernel.
>>
>> If changes like these to the generic x86_64 target are not desireable the
>> other option would be to create an own subtarget specifically for this
>> device.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> NAK. The x86-64 subtarget is free from legacy stuff and should remain that
> way. Looking at the specs of that thin client it can have either 1 or 2GB
> of ram, so it doesn't make much sense to use it in 64bits anyways. If
> changes are needed to run the generic x86 taget on it, please send patches
> for that.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Imre
>
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