Hi

bash_vi asked me to write a short resume about how to emerge programs by using the ramfs for speedup.
Here’s how to do so:

mount -t ramfs -o size=2g ramfs /var/tmp/portage/

• The “-t ramfs” is obviously self explainatory.
• The “-o size” tells the ramfs driver how much space of the RAM should be reserved for this specific mount point.
• “/var/tmp/portage/” is the place where portage usually unpacks the source boundles and begins to compile them.

You can also put it into your /etc/fstab in order to keep it for each reboot with
echo -e "ramfs\t/var/tmp/portage/\tramfs\tsize=2g\t0\t0" >> /etc/fstab

Now you can compile your stuff within RAMFS

Links:

• http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Emerge_beschleunigen
• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/overview-of-ramfs-and-tmpfs-on-linux/

Howdy

At least someone got Plasma-Active running on the NI Adam:
http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/latest-basyskom-plasma-active-tegra2-mer.html

But 2.6.38 , where 3.2 would be recent is really a NO-GO.

Really.

Dear developers.
Why don’t you write code which can be merged into upstream again?

I’m really pissed.
It’s again the same shit as with my HTC dream (or should I say nightmare?)
Ages outdated kernel, branches with drivers which are that badly written that they can never be merged into Torvalds master again.
Dudes! Can’t you have a look over to Texas Instruments?!
The OMAP is well documented, there are free drivers available and there is always support in main.
WTF? What use is a kernel where no peripherial drivers are available within the official, recent kernel?!