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[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20080316220847.V19332 at ury.york.ac.uk>
            Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk> writes:
: On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > I spent a bit of time on it tonight, based on your description.
: > There's one hack to the if_npe.c driver that's needed.  Once you have
: > that, then it is relatively simple to get at least a NFS root based
: > copy of AVILA booting.  I've not tried usb yet, nor worked on the rtc,
: > iic, gpio, etc.
: 
: Excellent.  Does the hack you needed involve copying the MAC address from 
: one place to another?  I'm pretty sure I had to do that, and also had to 
: hack the method used to find the correct microcide image.  I think the 
: latter change is no longer necessary since if_npe.c 1.6.

I think you must be right, since it just works for me.  I had to use
PHY address 1.  I need to add support for that.

: > I'll be cleaning this up in the next few days, but just wanted to say
: > thank you for making it sound so easy.
: 
: No worries, I probably should have said how easy it was to get it at least 
: partially booting.  I seem to remember the AVILA kernel config is pretty 
: much usable on the NSLU2 without modification.

Yes.  They are nearly all in common.  In fact, I've been trying to
modify the config files to make them more common.

: I'll try to get that RTC code to you some point this week or next, it's on 
: a system that I don't have access to right now.

That would be cool!  I'll look into the usb issues too.

Warner