On 03/26/12 11:00, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>>> they use a rather scary looking pile of development boards with very >>>> poor I/O. >>> >>> Buy a trimslice and run it with iSCSI. It's a very clean package, and >>> I can get 80 MB/sec to my file server's disks. That is neither >>> "scary" nor "poor I/O". >>> >>> http://www.delorie.com/arm/trimslice/iscsi.html >> >> Running the thing on iscsi is a good idea, given that local storage is >> linked up via usb while gb ethernet is hooked up via pcie. >> >> Any particular reason why you boot the thing via tftp? I'd expect just >> having /boot on the sd card (which you need for boot anyway) is easier, >> especially when it comes to kernel updates. > > Everything needed to boot goes into the initrd now days so you don't > even need the SD card. Check the URL above. The setup described there uses a sdcard with a u-boot script, which kicks off the tftp boot. I don't see the point in using tftp, you can place kernel+initrd directly at the sdcard if you have one anyway. Another possible way would be to boot directly from iscsi like you can do on x86 with an sanboot-enabled iPXE rom. I have no idea whenever u-boot can handle that though. cheers, Gerd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
