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<Turl>
nazcafan: I believe the bus is there, if that's what you're asking
<nazcafan>
Turl, my question is what is SPI, among tons of other questions like "how come ifconfig on my debian seems so ancient compared to the cubietruck's net-tools
<wens>
nazcafan: the bus is there, but there is no flash chip on it that stores a MAC address
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<nazcafan>
I think I retrieved the mac address from the cubietruck ifconfig
<nazcafan>
what do you guys mean by "the bus is there"?
<wens>
meaning the A20 has an SPI controller
<wens>
if you're using 3.4 kernel, the gmac driver generates a random MAC address if one wasn't provided in the fex file
<nazcafan>
is this somehow problematic?
<nazcafan>
at a hardware level, I mean
<wens>
no. it just means the MAC address you got with ifconfig is likely bogus :/
<nazcafan>
(I understanding that a random MAC adress can be problematic if you want to configure a dhcp server)
<nazcafan>
ah
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<nazcafan>
wens, bogus like arbitrary, or rather random? Right now I am using the Fedora 20 image that was provided by cubietruck (I just received an sdcard yesterday, so I am slowly following wiki steps)
<nazcafan>
basically, do you mean that if I restart the cubietruck, I should get a totally different mac address? or is it always the same one, allbeit a random one?
<wens>
nazcafan: if it's not written in the fex file, you get a totally (meaning the prefix is random, can be unicast or multicast) random MAC address each time you boot
<wens>
and it's more than likely to be different each time.
<nazcafan>
ok, so does it mean that the hardware has not intrinsic mac address?
<nazcafan>
or just that the driver doesn't have a way to retrieve it ... yet?
<wens>
the hardware does not have any mac address burned in.
<nazcafan>
interesting!
<wens>
and AFAIK allwinner hasn't registered an OUI (mac prefix), so unlikely they will ever provide one
<wens>
it's up to the vendors
<nazcafan>
ok, thanks for the info, wens, I'll definitely set a fixed address, so I can configure my dhcp server and polling local ip addresses to ssh
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<nazcafan>
mhh, I don't know whethe it's Fedora or the hardware, but the halt process doesn't seem to work so well
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<idella4>
I think this; dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/${card} bs=1024 seek=8 is TOTALLY confounding the kernel from having a chance of finding and loading the .dtb file
<idella4>
It's there but never found and/or read
<Nyuutwo>
idella4: this command just installs u-boot to sd card
<Nyuutwo>
you need load dtb to memory in u-boot for kernel
<Nyuutwo>
I don't remember if default commands have support of it out of box (I'm happy user of 3.4 kernel)
<Nyuutwo>
and also stale enviroment on sd card could override new default commands for booting
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<Turl>
idella4: as Nyuutwo said, that just installs uboot
<Nyuutwo>
it could be some problem with long names in u-boot
<Nyuutwo>
i just avoid fat when i can
<idella4>
hmm ok well I can convert it 2 ext2 3 or 4 easily enough
<Nyuutwo>
idella4: and use extload than fatload
<idella4>
'yes, extnload
<Nyuutwo>
afair there is extload that resolves which ext it is
<idella4>
oh so just extload will do then...
<idella4>
nice
<Nyuutwo>
if in doubt just use u-boot help
<idella4>
'right
<idella4>
thx Nyuutwo appreciate your effort
<idella4>
and the joke
<Nyuutwo>
heh, just translating from my native language
<idella4>
well that kind of helps. I speak a second but 99% sure not yours
<Nyuutwo>
heh, Polish is my native language
<Nyuutwo>
btw I use gentoo too
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<idella4>
ah nice
<idella4>
I thought it was Polish or Xzek
<idella4>
Polish or Czek rather
<Nyuutwo>
but on arm I am using arch (compiling takes too long)
<idella4>
well makes perfect sense
<Nyuutwo>
heh, Czech language for polish people is sometime funny
<idella4>
man years ago a housemate was Czek, and I recall Polish and Czek could be undderstood by one another
<Nyuutwo>
for example both in Czech and Polish there is a word dywan, but in Polish means carpet, and in Czech means couch
<pirea>
Nyuutwo why you din't try gentoo?
<pirea>
:|
<Nyuutwo>
pirea: I remember when I installed gentoo on Celeron@300 and forgot to update it regularry
<Nyuutwo>
small home file server
<Nyuutwo>
and it was true introduction to linux (beforehand I toyed with mandrake few years before and at gentoo server time I also had on laptop installed mandriva alongside windows but I didn't used it)
<Nyuutwo>
but then I removed windows and installed gentoo as only system (I don't remember if i used mandriva for some time)
<pirea>
gentoo is the most flexible linux
<pirea>
and usable
<Nyuutwo>
and this install of gentoo survived emerge -C world (was very sleepy and didn't know what I was doing), change of disk, change of laptop
<Nyuutwo>
pirea: but when you know it you have hard time what choose for server
<Nyuutwo>
and ubuntu release cycle starts to look brainfarted
<pirea>
nyuutwo for servers my choice always will be gentoo :)
<pirea>
because i cand do everything as i want
<Nyuutwo>
hmm, and now I have bigger problem which distro to use for router (+ lan management scripts/webapp)
<Nyuutwo>
now I have debian squeeze and its support ends
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<Nyuutwo>
meybe, gentoo hardened? is there other distro that hardens themself?
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<pirea>
Nyuutwo x86 or arm?
<Nyuutwo>
x86
<pirea>
is about router
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<Nyuutwo>
and it has load average of 0.00
<pirea>
Nyuutwo IPFire?
<Nyuutwo>
pirea: has it static mac-ip mapping?
<Nyuutwo>
enforced by inserting static ARP + sending dhcp leases based on this thing (~500 users to manage)
<pirea>
Nyuutwo idk
<Nyuutwo>
arpwatch is a must + I am thinking of starting usage of SNMP in some switches that I have
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<Nyuutwo>
there is http://www.lms.org.pl/ but I don't know how it will apply to my usage
<idella4>
hmm well there we have it;
<idella4>
Unknown command 'extload'
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<Nyuutwo>
idella4: it can be not compiled in default config of u-boot
<idella4>
must be
<Nyuutwo>
idella4: checked in sources, there is ext2 and ext4
<Nyuutwo>
just use command help to list avalible commands
<idella4>
ok
<Nyuutwo>
I could mix extload with other bootloader, or something like ext2load didn't care which ext was provided
<idella4>
Loading Device Tree to 40ff9000, end 40fffcee ... O yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
<Nyuutwo>
just too much pararell developing
<idella4>
seems so
<Nyuutwo>
and sunxi i use as user, on others I make it work
<Nyuutwo>
I wait for patch for good axp support (tablet)
<Nyuutwo>
and meantime I try to hack my oscilloscope (s3c2440 based)
<binaryferret>
If I wanted to detect if the power off button on an allwinner tablet has been pushed, (the one that powers off after X amount of seconds held down). Where should I be looking? I thought /sys/power but alas not.