Dreamplug, BOOTP, NFS root, DHCP

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:26 +0100, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> Am 27.03.2013 03:29, schrieb Ian Lepore:
> > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 19:11 +0100, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>[...]
> >>
> >> Mat
> > I've only got a few minutes available right now, so not much to offer,
> > except... could you put a world on a usb thumb drive and recompile the
> > kernel for a /dev/daNxx root path?  Even better would be a world on an
> > eSata drive if you have one.  (One of those multi-slot docks that holds
> > a couple drives and is both a usb dock and an eSata port multiplier, is
> > a nifty thing for a dreamplug owner to have.)
> >
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> thanks for the tip, I just didn't think about that.. it's great to have 
> that choice of connectivity on the Dreamplug :-)
> Now I've been able to install world again, and it seems to basically 
> work. Next step is to check which devices are not supported yet, and to 
> figure out what and if I'm able to do something there.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks again for the Kernel conf and dts file. They work 
> like a charm so far.
> 
> Mat

Good to hear you're up and running again.

The thing we most need for dreamplug is a wifi driver.  Unfortunately
there are two layers of pain in getting there... a driver for the device
itself, and a complete reworking of our MMC/SD support since the wifi
part apparently uses SDIO and we don't have good support for that right
now.

-- Ian