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--- wrtu54g-tm:status [2010/10/27 13:48] – neutronscott
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 If anyone cares to help, request features, donate, or just shoot the shit, email me: neutronscott at scottn ... I also accept friend requests on facebook or twitter, same username. I'm so lonely :\
+===== bootloader =====
+ I got stuck on a tangent of getting u-boot replaced so that hopefully if you are following each build, and burn a broke image, the bootloader will be accessible without a serial cable. netconsole was giving me problems due to errors in network code (seen by first 2 TFTP transmits timeout, you notice that?). once i fixed that, netconsole shows everything twice... so i'm ported the latest u-boot 2010.09 release. still everything twice. turns out the network card driver wasn't MIPS-friendly. fixed that too.
+hah. why spending so much time on something thats purpose is served in 3seconds... shrug. i'm learning a lot about MIPS 4K specific code :D it works, but the image is huge. old u-boot came with a bzip2 loader. but without even touching that, i see a bzip of the binary is still just over 64k. i will use lzma-loader from openwrt. :)
+===== OpenWRT backfire (linux kernel 2.4) =====
+I'd probably recommend this build since wireless and usb (somewhat) work.
+  - nls_base is missing from kernel if built without an nls set... gayyyy workaround i made a tainted module: http://wrt.scottn.us/nls_base.o for now.
+  - more config options need dealt with by /lib/wifi/rt61ap.sh ?
+  - figure out why only usb1.1 storage and cell phones work. usb2-storage and soundcard did not.
 ===== OpenWRT trunk (linux kernel 2.6.36) =====
 Somewhat in order:
-  - [**DONE**] lzma-loader: rather slow. u-boot loads entire image to RAM, but I decompress from flash. let's do RAM->RAM. just need to move my buffer...
+  - [**DONE** again] lzma-loader: ported backfires work into trunk. it's fast again.
-  - export our GPIO pins using gpiolib instead of /proc/adm8668/buttons
+  - [**DONE** maybe in b4?] rt2x00/rt61 wifi driver performance! uses up all of the CPU.
+  - USB: i think the usb stack is less forgiving than linux2.4, and i seriously think i shouldn't have removed the resistors. sooo maybe it will work after a hardware change.
+  - export our GPIO pins using gpiolib instead of /proc/adm8668/buttons
+  - get at least GPIO working off VINETIC chip, so power LED can be controlled! argh.
   - ethernet work: switch driver. vlans. pass MAC address from boot code to ethernet driver, rather than hardcode FLASH address of said MAC address into driver (say what!?) [its in u-boot environment and BSP_CFG_AREA...]
-  - rt2x00/rt61 wifi driver performance! uses up all of the CPU.
-===== OpenWRT backfire (linux kernel 2.4) =====
-I'd probably recommend this build due to better wifi performance, but I've not ran any tests to compare the two (just noticed cpu usage), and I don't even have the sources on my machine since I reformatted.
-  - Wireless needs configured via /etc/config/wireless. Just need scripts to glue together rt61ap.dat with their configuration scheme.