From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 14:00:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7F41065676 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aduane@juniper.net) Received: from exprod7og122.obsmtp.com (exprod7og122.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DCF8FC12 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from P-EMHUB03-HQ.jnpr.net ([66.129.224.36]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob122.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTtOT5/MJVLumfBg62aM2oZE2wZtBs9IE@postini.com; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:00:08 PST Received: from p-emfe01-wf.jnpr.net (172.28.145.24) by P-EMHUB03-HQ.jnpr.net (172.24.192.37) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.213.0; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:45:42 -0800 Received: from EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net ([fe80::1914:3299:33d9:e43b]) by p-emfe01-wf.jnpr.net ([fe80::d0d1:653d:5b91:a123%11]) with mapi; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:45:42 -0500 From: Andrew Duane To: Adrian Chadd , Nenhum_de_Nos Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:45:40 -0500 Thread-Topic: tplink TL-WR1043ND access point is now ready (was Re: svn commit: r227926 - head/sys/mips/conf) Thread-Index: Acyr3O/ovuGrcy7cQ4CSA18B0P5+agB9sFWg Message-ID: References: <4ECFF854.5050602@swin.edu.au> <4010BC72-2896-4AD0-AECB-60768C82F549@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: tplink TL-WR1043ND access point is now ready (was Re: svn commit: r227926 - head/sys/mips/conf) X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:28 -0000 FWIW, I once went through the code and attempted to find all the endian-spe= cific places in UFS/FFS, and rapidly went insane. I also tried a pass of ma= king a utility to swap an existing filesystem around, exactly so I could cr= eate one on an i386 then mount it on MIPS. That also quickly turned into a = fool's errand.=20 =A0................................... Andrew Duane Juniper Networks +1 978-589-0551 (o) +1 603-770-7088 (m) aduane@juniper.net > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- embedded@= freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 8:44 PM > To: Nenhum_de_Nos > Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: tplink TL-WR1043ND access point is now ready (was Re: svn > commit: r227926 - head/sys/mips/conf) >=20 > On 26 November 2011 09:22, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote= : >=20 > > is there a way to make it have ufs ? > > and any TL-WR1043ND will do, or must have hw version of some specific n= umber ? >=20 > It's a UFS, compressed on the flash. But uzip is read-only, and doing > lots of modifications to a cheap NOR flash is not likely a smart move. > You can attach an FFS formatted flash disk and run a read/write > filesystem on that. >=20 > Just keep in mind (and here's something I should write up on the wiki) > that the filesystem endianness is _not_ the same as intel. You can't > just simply create a FS on an intel box and mount it on MIPS. It'd be > nice if someone went over the UFS/FFS code and introduced endian > configurability, but that's definitely not in the scope of my current wor= k.