OK, Efikas are here then I guess it's time to start some things.

First we need to order hardware required to setup laboratory, but before then I steal one of the machines to test/check some things.

First I decide to try Debian just to check is board ok, but to be honest I realy doesn't like this distribution and finaly I use it only to install Gentoo.

I bootstraped it from stage1 using gcc 4.1.1 and uClibc on my Pegasos2 and move to Efika. It seems to work just fine, but:

- uClibc seems to be quite problematic as it is not 100% compatible with glibc. Some packages fails to compile and need some changes, some are masked for uClibc profile (glib2 for example)
- HD performance is realy poor. On my 40GB Samsung HD I was able to get 2MB/s with almost 100% CPU usage. Now I want to test the SDMA IDE driver and I hope to see higer numbers this time.

If someone wants to see my gr8 case for Efika:

- http://tbs-software.com/morgoth/files/p ... IM2154.JPG
- http://tbs-software.com/morgoth/files/p ... IM2157.JPG

It's funny, because I was thinking to the same case for a start :-)

Hey Guys!

http://www.genesippc.com/gallery.php?id=144

We wrote about this today and yesterday...;-)

http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/12/startu ... tials.html

http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/12/99-efika.html

Great case!

R&B :)

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Hmmm, I wanted to setup serial console on Efika, but I see no /dev/ttyS0 in /dev using kernel from www.efika.de

I see /dev/ttyPSC0 only.

OK, RTFM solves this one for me.