What about consider to give a version to people that want to try cerowrt on other atheros based platforms? Like all the http://routerboard.com ones? On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:02 PM, David Täht wrote: > A new smoketest of rc7 is out: > > http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/**~cero1/rc7-smoketests/rc7-**smoketest5/ > > Which is basically linux-3.0.8 + openwrt head + support for the wndr3800 > > CeroWrt IS independently buildable now: > > http://www.bufferbloat.net/**projects/cerowrt/wiki/** > Building_Cerowrt_on_your_own_**machine > > It's getting easier to install: > > http://www.bufferbloat.net/**projects/cerowrt/wiki/OCEAN_** > CITY_INSTALLATION_GUIDE > > and the roadmap remains overwhelming. > > http://www.bufferbloat.net/**projects/cerowrt/roadmap > > ... > > I was feeling kind of discouraged about the prospect of renewing work on > cerowrt this month. > > The goal has been to get to where the OS and drivers are stable, then do a > bunch of *repeatable* bloat-related experiments - then kick back into a > development mode with those results. > > we've been spending increasing amounts of time validating the lowest levels > of the stack - re-analyzing the original bufferbloat data, as one example - > and we've designed a couple experiments that should reliably show > bufferbloat AND hopefully various mitigations against it, once they exist - > that can be repeated by engineers (in front of management!) and students > using the thing. > > and I've been thinking really hard about what a good API to Minstrel would > be... > > All of which was more fun that getting cerowrt from rc to 1.0. > > Because, on the whole, the last rc4 is working pretty good. > > AND the prospect of building an entire OS AGAIN and burning it into the > machines at bloatlab #1 was a bit daunting. Not only that, but enough fixes > had gone into the linux-3.1 release (mostly ipv6 related) that I was > thinking it would be best to aim for that as a final target for 1.0 than > stick with 3.0... > > And THEN I was pleased to see people actively pointing to the project > today. > > http://ask.slashdot.org/story/**11/10/25/1429235/ask-slashdot-** > dd-wrt-upgrade-to-80211n > > darn it... so my enthusiasm is back closer to where it belongs, and I got > that smoketest out. Darn it, bruce... > > So. > > My thx to Petri Rosenström for simply *ignoring* the steaming pile of > patches for the wndr3800 that are on > "http://www.myopenrouter.com/**download/list?cat=64 > " > > and just creating the *one* tiny patch that mattered. Not only that, but > openwrt head for the 3800 has working leds and ipv6, which the one on the > above site's betas do not. If anyone has a 3800, please give this smoketest > a try. > > (I'm told the wndr3700*v3* is basically the same as a 3700v1 - not enough > flash! So I hope the 3800 works out if the 3700v2 stops being available.) > > I did one of the aforementioned experiments (I will write it up after > linuxcon), showing how much lower latency txqueuelen of less than 40 was > than 1000, under load... > > and a talk last week at the lincs lab, then two in oslo this week... and > I'm in Prague now for linuxcon where I am happily NOT speaking, just > planning to kibitz on john linville's talk (hi john!)... and after that I'm > going to buckle down for the winter and start attacking some of the harder, > higher level stuff left on the roadmap. > > I'll make a call on 3.1 after linuxcon. Thoughts welcomed... help > welcomed... > > I also have a raft of tiny patches queued up - notably what I think is a > fix to ipv6 related 802.11e classification that I've yet to test, and a > revamp of the openwrt qos system, and I finally got a spare box that I can > do debloat-testing kernel work on without risking my laptop's life... > > And I keep struggling to remember the name of this GREAT jazz club in > paris... I got a lot of work done there one night while grooving on it... > and is anybody else in prague this week? > > -- > Dave Täht > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > > -- Name: Riccardo Giuntoli Email: taglio@gmail.com Location: Canyelles, BCN, España PGP Key: 0x67123739 PGP Fingerprint: CE75 16B5 D855 842FAB54 FB5C DDC6 4640 6712 3739 Key server: hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net