Re: Looking for ARM hardware

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 07:48:39PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> >If you mean the Erlite3, then the USB is not broken as such. The problem is
> >that the UBoot in the flash doesn't bother doing a _proper_ initialization
> >of the USB hardware - just enough the talk to the included USB sticks via
> >usb-storage and boot from them. As a result, only some USB sticks work with
> >the Erlite3 (such as the Sandisk Cruzer Fit 16GB) in that state. However, if
> >you, say, netboot NetBSD current on it and then reboot, it will cheerfully
> >boot from any random USB stick you've got lying around - because NetBSD
> >(or for that matter, Linux) actually does a full initialization of the USB
> >hardware stack. BTDTGNTS. Unfortunately, NetBSD current was ... not really
> >useful the last time I tried it on the Erlite3 - compiling hello_world.c
> >worked fine, but building anything from ports failed with weird compiler
> >errors.
> 
> Well, yes and no. USB works in NetBSD, but unless something has changed in
> the last several months, doing any decent amount of USB transfers locks the
> system. I can't cvs pkgsrc, for instance.

Yeah, I saw that as well: try to shovel a few hundred MB onto the USB
device and it will just die. I have _not_ seen this behaviour on Linux,
though, where the Erlite3 is rock solid so far.

Kind regards,
          Alex.
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