[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: a kernel for our solidrun protos?

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 05:03:29PM -0500, George Hunt wrote:
> [...]
> Progress report -- mostly as a log because the hardware seems really
> promising and I expect to be coming back to  Cubox later in the
> year. When I was doing yum updates of the rootfs, top reported 100%
> utilization for the yum task, but also 75% idle on the summary
> panel.

This might be the process being stalled waiting for disk access, or a
kernel thread spinning.  The "D" state is reported in load average for
the system.  The CPU idle may be from a different input.

You might work to characterise the available I/O bandwidth.

> [...]
> As I was trying to load the XSCE software, I found that I needed a
> second ethernet adapter, but neither the Cubox, or the trimslice
> which I use as tool, seems to have drivers for the AX88772 USB to
> 10/100 Fast Ethernet/HomePNA/ HomePlug controller. I'm sure there
> are other adapters which the kernel can handle, so I stopped on this
> track.

For that adapter, enable CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X.  We have that in the
OLPC kernels.

> [...]

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/