RE: {Snake OS} Digest for dealextreme-nas-@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 2 topics
John Vickers
This group has been quiet for a long time now, the Dealextreme NAS is not an appealing product when compared to the Raspberry Pi which beats the Dealextreme NAS in all respects and is very cheap.
John
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§ {DealExtreme NAS} Re: Request: Source for snakeos-V1.3.2-20101130-from-snake.bin [2 Updates]
Stefan Scheffler <stefans...@gmx.net> Apr 30 06:39PM +0200
Mine always seem to go through instantly. Is the group even moderated?
Am Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
Stefan Scheffler <stefans...@gmx.net> Apr 30 04:56PM +0200
Sure why not. Google disabled downloads a while back so we'd need a new
home for those anyway. I was actually thinking of setting up a site
myself, but considering how little activity there is around snake os it
wasn't really a priority.
Am Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
> a time.
> - With its submodules system we can stop manually downloading the
> source code of applications bundled with Snake OS.
Isn't this similar to svn externals?
> gathering new contributors and making the system popular and open to
> changes as new simple devices are released. We won't need to get out
> of Google Code. Instead, it would be a mirror.
I doubt that there will be a whole lot new devices.
The Econa/CNS21XX series seems to have dropped from Caviums product
pages, so they probably aren't even selling them anymore.
> to strip the cross-compiling toolchain binaries and everything that
> isn't source code to different repositories, as well as removing the
> compiled images.
How does github handle binary downloads? Does everything need to be
built from a repositories? If not one option might be to just pack
up the toolchain in a tarball. You can point the snake os build system
to use an external toolchain with an environment variable so it doesn't
strictly need to be in-tree.
The source for the toolchain is available on cnsusers.org btw. It looks
like just a somewhat patched up buildroot.
> sections. A webserver made on purpose, Ajax and JSON-based, modular
> (each section has a dynamic loaded module), eliminating the pair
> httpd+haserl and the need to have shell scripts embedded in HTML.
Can you be a little more specific about how this is supposed to work?
The main draw of the httpd+haserl combination is that it's really tiny.
Httpd must be around anyway for the web server function and haserl is
just a few kilobyte in size. Haserl can be compiled with with lua
support if you want to avoid shell scripts.
> - A Package Manager like the one in Sublime Text. We host the
> packages along with an index and they should be instalable directly
> from Snake's web interface.
This is actually possible already. Opkg can install packages from
external repositories (like apt-get). It just needs an interface ..well
and a repository somewhere. Would github be suitable for that?
> commits is an stimulus to make it "at home" instead of forking. Also,
> K330 still sells and it looks like there's already some code to
> support K340, regarding its WiFi functionality.
AFAIK the K340 is completely different hardware. I don't think it
will run on those any time soon. The wifi stuff in svn is for usb
adapters. See: https://code.google.com/p/snake-os/issues/detail?id=62
Stefan Scheffler <stefans...@gmx.net> Apr 30 06:38PM +0200
Ok, the actual toolchain is under tools/arm-uclibc-3.4.6 though. The
rest are just auxiliary files. Most of them aren't even needed.
After a quick look the ones that are referenced somewhere are:
depmod.pl - at some point some new version of depmod started to hardwire
some path components so this was a replacement. maybe that
has changed
sumtool - comes with mtd-utils. so it's actually redundant because
we depend on mtd-utils for mkfs.jffs2 already
usb_device.bin - some optional u-boot code. I'm not sure what this does.
strings in the binary and u-boot suggest that it's for
booting via usb or something like that
The rest could probably go.
There's also a newer version of u-boot under
https://code.google.com/p/snake-os/source/browse/u-boot
It runs and can load snake from flash, network and usb. But it's
still experminental. I don't know if you want to add it.
How could I get added to the project? I'm not familiar with github and
my knowledge of git is pretty basic too..
Am Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
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