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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Dear TS: Any word on when Debian Etch image for the ts-7300 will be availabl
From: "charliem_1216" <>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:27:23 -0000
Hi Jason --

--- In  Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> I can't speak for TS but I'd imagine they're probably not devoting much 
> time to getting Etch running.  I can definately say that they are not 

Probably right about etch.

> working towards a 2.6 kernel, it been mentioned a few times now and the 

I think (IMHO) TS is looking harder at 2.6.  TS POV, completely
understandable, is that there is no motivation for moving _existing_
boards to 2.6.  But OTOH, _new_ boards may be different (see last line):

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/6055

> answer has always been that there is nothign really driving a switch to 
> 2.6.  2.4 works, works fairly well and stable, and a lot of the new 
> features in 2.6 are not applicable to the TS-7xxx boards.
> 
> On the other hand, there are a few people working on getting 2.6 
> running, look back in the group you'll find a bunch of info on getting 
> 2.6.19 running.

+1.  You have to dig around for the 2.6 info, but it's there.  If you
have trouble, write back.

If you're eager for debian development images, check out the eabi
development stuff:  http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort (This will be
the etch+1 release)  Also:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9048137234.html 
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5920399313.html  (Massive FP
improvement, would be even greater using maverick crunch ....)


regards, ....... Charlie

> 
> Jason
> 
> Dustin Harriman wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I have a TS-7300 with Debian 3.1 on it, with the linux 2.4 kernel.
> >I'm quite excited to get Debian Etch 4.0 onto it, but an apt-get
> >dist-upgrade would probably take a really, really long time, and
> >perhaps fail.  Then I would need to cross compile and install a new
> >kernel, etc.
> >
> >Just re-imaging the SD card with a new version of Debian Etch as
> >prepared by TS would make things much, much easier for users like me.
> >
> >When I go to Technologic System's Debian page at:
> >http://www.embeddedarm.com/linux/ARM.htm#debian
> >...one can download a ready-to-use image of Debian 3.0 (woody) and 3.1
> >(sarge), but 4.0 (etch) is not available yet.
> >
> >I know the employees of Technologic Systems read this mailing list, so
> >I thought I'd ask if there's any word (official or otherwise) on when
> >this might possibly be made available for download on the page above.
> >
> >And also, would that new Debian image have a 2.6 kernel?
> >
> >...and if I can squeeze in a humble request, can the default
> >filesystem be JFFS2 instead of ext2 (or some other flash filesystem
> >that's journaled)?  Pretty please?
> >
> >I know Debian Etch was only released a few weeks ago, and these things
> >can take time, so I apologize for the nagging.  But I'm dying to know.
> >
>



 
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