A few additional ideas on how this section could be expanded
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should ideally be added to the README), but was implied by the
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"u-boot_reflash" file (in the same directory as the README), which explicitly
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used the other tarball. The build took about 40 minutes to run on our system.
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% FIXME: Above, I'd like to see more ``walk through'' of the step by step
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% instructions. The text is a bit terse: could be expanded to talk more.
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* It was helpful to know that we could use "make menuconfig" for configuration
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changes, as being able to modify the source is an important part of the GPL's
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requirements. Adding instructions like these shows that the distributor is
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aware of and interested in promoting the spirit of the GPL, by making it
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easier to modify the source than may be strictly required by the GPL's text.
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% FIXME: We should somewhere (perhaps on each step we discuss) talk about
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% what often goes wrong on those steps, and why this is right. As written
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% now, there is no driving home of the fact that it is uncommon that things
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% are so smooth. :)
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* The "make" step completed successfully on our system and resulted in several
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files being generated in the bin/ar71xx directory, namely firmware images.
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There appeared to be several filesystem and kernel images, for different
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hardware versions. It was unclear which one to install on the particular
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device we received or how to install it, both of which should have been
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mentioned in the README.
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% FIXME: Below, we probably want to talk to them to add this, and also, be a
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% bit more expansive.
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* The above installation issue is mitigated by the availability of a web UI in
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the product that performs firmware image installation. It would be best if
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instructions like those at http://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=Tp+MR3020
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