tplink TL-WR1043ND access point is now ready (was Re: svn commit: r227926 - head/sys/mips/conf)

[Andrew Duane]

FWIW, I once went through the code and attempted to find all the endian-specific places in UFS/FFS, and rapidly went insane. I also tried a pass of making a utility to swap an existing filesystem around, exactly so I could create one on an i386 then mount it on MIPS. That also quickly turned into a fool's errand. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-embedded at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- embedded at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 8:44 PM
> To: Nenhum_de_Nos
> Cc: freebsd-embedded at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: tplink TL-WR1043ND access point is now ready (was Re: svn
> commit: r227926 - head/sys/mips/conf)
> 
> On 26 November 2011 09:22, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
> 
> > is there a way to make it have ufs ?
> > and any TL-WR1043ND will do, or must have hw version of some specific number ?
> 
> It's a UFS, compressed on the flash. But uzip is read-only, and doing
> lots of modifications to a cheap NOR flash is not likely a smart move.
> You can attach an FFS formatted flash disk and run a read/write
> filesystem on that.
> 
> Just keep in mind (and here's something I should write up on the wiki)
> that the filesystem endianness is _not_ the same as intel. You can't
> just simply create a FS on an intel box and mount it on MIPS. It'd be
> nice if someone went over the UFS/FFS code and introduced endian
> configurability, but that's definitely not in the scope of my current work.