A new kernel for oxnas

[Geoff]

I have now built the 3.12 kernel and 2013.10 u-boot for SATA+ext4 on the Pogo Pro at 850MHz. I am getting SATA i/o speeds of 100MB/s read, 60MB/s write. That's reading from a 1GB contiguous file to /dev/null vs writing 1GB from /dev/zero to a file. My HDD is capable of up to 126 MB/s read/write in the region I was testing (near the outer edge of the disk).

[coachskolari]

geoff that sounds great which rootfs do u use?

would you like to share your compiled kernel 3.12 and uboot for the community ?

[WarheadsSE]

I am looking at possibly re-introducing support. Things need verified. The armv5te rootfs should function fine.

[coachskolari]

I think it is time now to publish some instructions at least

I built the kernel (according to navyms instructions for old uboot)
Then i updated the disk_create script to flash the new kernel to sata instead the original one.
-> booting to latest rootfs no success

Then built the new uboot. And tried to follow navyms tutorial to use uboot in a 1st fat partition of the sata drive:
https://github.com/kref/u-boot-oxnas/wi ... t-for-sata
"With this u-boot, you can put all boot files except stage1 in a FAT formated partition."
I do not understand what means "all boot files".

And if i am using this uboot, do i have to edit the config file to enable ext4 rootfs support ?
Furthermore I would like to know where to put the kernel in.
To the fat partition? Or to the boot folder of the rootfs ?
Because the unformatted partition is not anylonger availabe since we formatted it as described in this wiki.

Hmn..now as it is possible again to use a stable and fast arch system on the pogo pro (or classic) it would be nice if one of the professionals could give us some instructions.

[WarheadsSE]

I am preparing to move houses, so I am busy packing up all non-essential devices, or I might be able to examine this..

[ShapeShifter499]

I have got everything booting but I don't have a uInitrd file, do I need one? What about wifi, I can't find anything, how do I enable that? Lastly what about the LED? I don't know how to get that working either.

[WarheadsSE]

ALARM does not ship initrd.

[ShapeShifter499]

Oh sorry I got debian wheezy running on this thing. Ok what about wifi? I don't care about the led as my hard drive has a led that lights up if it's working. I really would like to get wifi working more than anything. I know I had it working when I had the original software on the pogoplug.

[Socaltom]

Try searching for "How to Enable wireless".
Tom

[ShapeShifter499]

Yes but I installed the latest 3.12.6 kernel from the git repos mentioned in this thread. Whenever I lookup enabling wifi for pogoplug they only mention copying the module from the old 2.6 kernel, that won't work.