[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/{at91sam9*, atmel*}: drop OpenSSH as it duplicates Dropbear

Alexander Dahl post at lespocky.de
Fri Oct 26 10:08:43 UTC 2018


Hei hei,

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:48:44AM +0000, Nicolas.Ferre at microchip.com wrote:
> On 26/10/2018 at 11:40, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > The "development" defconfigs for Atmel platforms enable both OpenSSH
> > and Dropbear, which doesn't make a lot of sense, as only one SSH
> > server can start on port 22.
> > 
> > This commit therefore drops BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSH=y from those
> > defconfigs, keeping Dropbear as an SSH server/client.
> 
> A gut feeling is telling me that I would have preferred the other way 
> around: Keeping OpenSSH.

I would have opted for Dropbear, too. Especially because old at91
based boards usually don't come with a lot of memory (both RAM and
Flash).

> Is scp provided by Dropbear?

Yes it is. sftp is tricky, however.

Greets
Alex

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