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Slackwarearm-14.0 ChangeLog (2012-10-04)
Thu Oct 4 19:15:56 UTC 2012
/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT: Amended.
Minor adjustments in the U-Boot configuration parameters to assume that the
'Plug' devices are running the upstream 'DENX' U-Boot rather than the older
releases from 'Marvell'. The Marvell versions of U-Boot (and even some older
versions of the upstream releases) are not so robust in some situations, so it
makes sense (particularly for new Slackware ARM users) to upgrade their U-Boot
to a known-good release.
If you are using a GuruPlug, or SheevaPlug eSATA you are recommended to upgrade
U-Boot if it's older than the recommended version. This is due to a bug in
older U-Boot releases that may cause trouble booting newer Linux kernels such
as the version in Slackware ARM 14.0.
However, if you are happy with the version of U-Boot on your plugs, there's no
need to upgrade U-Boot: if you're going to reformat and reinstall with the same
disk partitioning scheme, you can boot the Slackware installer and reinstall
without changing any U-Boot configuration. If you've already installed
Slackware 14.0 on your system and it's working, you won't need to upgrade
U-Boot unless you are having some intermittent problems and would like to see
whether these are fixed by the new version.
Martin Michlmayr from Debian has always maintained a page with the stable
release of U-Boot for the Plugs, so it makes sense to me be refer to his
work in this area.
For details about upgrading U-Boot on your Plug, see
http://www.armedslack.org/maint_kirkwooduboot/
Thanks to Michael Langfinger for the suggestion.
Packages
Rebuilt
- patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1c-arm-3_slack14.0.tgz
Rebuilt to use ARM assembler optimisations which provides impressive
performance increases.
For more details see http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=8433
Thanks to Michael Langfinger for the suggestion.