16 files changed, 196 insertions, 145 deletions
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-bag.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-bag.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a9c4eb88d..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-bag.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-BAG
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "b"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "a"
-NSLU2_OS = "g"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-bau.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-bau.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index f27f7db709..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-bau.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-BAU
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "b"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "a"
-NSLU2_OS = "u"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-btu.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-btu.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e37ebdf91..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-btu.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-BTU
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "b"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "t"
-NSLU2_OS = "u"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-lag.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-lag.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e9a4bbf8e..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-lag.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-LAG
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "l"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "a"
-NSLU2_OS = "g"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-lau.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-lau.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f54c0ecc2..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-lau.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-LAU
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "l"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "a"
-NSLU2_OS = "u"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-ltu.conf b/conf/distro/nslu2-ltu.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index f48671d0c4..0000000000
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-ltu.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2-LTU
-#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
-
-# This is not the official DISTRO, so leave the DISTRO parameters unchanged
-# from the defaults in nslu2-dist.conf.  Set the build configuration options
-# to b,t,u
-NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "l"
-NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "t"
-NSLU2_OS = "u"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/openslug.conf b/conf/distro/openslug.conf
index a7c21bca2f..e9f88311c2 100644
--- a/conf/distro/openslug.conf
+++ b/conf/distro/openslug.conf
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # STANDARD OpenSlug DEFINITIONS
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 DISTRO_NAME = "OpenSlug"
-DISTRO_VERSION = "2.8-beta"
+DISTRO_VERSION = "3.0-beta"
 DISTRO_FEED = "unstable"
 DISTRO_TYPE = "beta"
 
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ OPENSLUG_EXTRA_BBFILES ?= ""
 #  (such as a local feed) can be defined in local.conf
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Add to the user's feeds from local.conf (there may be none)
+#FIXME: this is temporary until the changeover to slugos-bag is complete.
 FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/openslug/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
 FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/openslug/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
 
@@ -111,8 +112,8 @@ kernel-module-nls-utf8 \
 # a bootable, useable, system however they *are* expected to be present
 # in OpenSlug - see nslu2-bag for a more minimal configuration and some
 # more instructions about how to make a non-openslug image.
-NSLU2_EXTRA_DEPENDS  = "${OPENSLUG_STANDARD_DEPENDS}"
-NSLU2_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "${OPENSLUG_STANDARD_RDEPENDS}"
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_DEPENDS  = "${OPENSLUG_STANDARD_DEPENDS}"
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "${OPENSLUG_STANDARD_RDEPENDS}"
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # PACKAGE VERSION CONTROL
@@ -123,9 +124,7 @@ PREFERRED_VERSION_nslu2-linksys-firmware ?= "2.3r29"
 # BASE VERSION SELECTION
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # b - big-endian
-# a - ARM instruction set, no interwork
+# a - ARM instruction set
 # g - glibc
 #
-# Interwork must be turned off here
-NSLU2_INTERWORK = ""
-include conf/distro/nslu2-bag.conf
+include conf/distro/slugos-bag.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-bag.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-bag.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d59722b48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-bag.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-BAG
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# See slugos.conf for an explanation of this file.
+
+# This slugos variant corresponds to OpenSlug
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-bag"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "3.0-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "beta"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "be"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+TARGET_OS = "linux"
+
+FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/slugos-bag/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/slugos-bag/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-bau.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-bau.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab25777a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-bau.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-BAU
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# See slugos.conf for an explanation of this file.
+
+# This slugos variant is not supported - there are no nslu2-linux.org
+# regular builds and there is no feed.
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-bau"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "0-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "alpha"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "be"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+TARGET_OS = "linux-uclibc"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-btu.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-btu.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c96441076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-btu.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-BTU
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# See slugos.conf for an explanation of this file.
+
+# This slugos variant corresponds to UcSlugC
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-btu"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "3-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "beta"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "be"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "thumb"
+TARGET_OS = "linux-uclibc"
+
+FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/slugos-btu/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/slugos-btu/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-lag.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-lag.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..644c09b6ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-lag.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-LAG
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# This slugos variant is not supported - there are no nslu2-linux.org
+# regular builds and there is no feed.
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-lag"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "0-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "alpha"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "le"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+TARGET_OS = "linux"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-lau.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-lau.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0866f80763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-lau.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-LAU
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# This slugos variant is not supported - there are no nslu2-linux.org
+# regular builds and there is no feed.
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-lau"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "0-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "alpha"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "le"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+TARGET_OS = "linux-uclibc"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/slugos-ltu.conf b/conf/distro/slugos-ltu.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06193c9169
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos-ltu.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#@TYPE: Distribution
+#@NAME: SLUGOS-LTU
+#@DESCRIPTION: Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# This slugos variant is not supported - there are no nslu2-linux.org
+# regular builds and there is no feed.
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "slugos-ltu"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "0-beta"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "alpha"
+
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "le"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "thumb"
+TARGET_OS = "linux-uclibc"
+
+include conf/distro/slugos.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf b/conf/distro/slugos.conf
index de6c8d9173..7151f2e8b3 100644
--- a/conf/distro/nslu2-dist.conf
+++ b/conf/distro/slugos.conf
@@ -1,70 +1,71 @@
 #@TYPE: Distribution
-#@NAME: NSLU2
-#@DESCRIPTION: UcSlugC Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+#@NAME: SlugOS
+#@DESCRIPTION: SlugOS Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
+
+# WARNING: this file should not be used directly, use one of
+# the supported slugos-???.conf instead:
 
 # Explanation of the naming
 #
 # nslu2-dist - the base distro configuration for an NSLU2
 # nslu2-[bl][at][gu] - a specific configuration encoded as follows:
-# b or l - big or little endian
-# a or t - ARM or Thumb instructions in the low level libraries
-# g or u - glibc or uclibc libc implementation
+#
+#  b or l - big or little endian
+#         set ARCH_BYTE_SEX to match
+#
+#  a or t - ARM or Thumb instructions in the low level libraries
+#         set ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET to match
+#
+#  g or u - glibc or uclibc libc implementation
+#         set TARGET_OS to match
+#
+# The following names are deprecated:
 #
 # openslug - the historical name of a canonical nslu2-bag distro,
 #            used generically for NSLU2 specific distro features and
 #            the default OVERRIDE for all these NSLU2 builds
-# ucslugc  - the historical (and obsolte) name of nslu2-btu
+# ucslugc  - the historical (and obsolete) name of nslu2-btu
 #            also the name of a standard nslu2-btu distro with a package feed
 #
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# STANDARD NSLU2 DEFINITIONS
+# STANDARD SLUGOS DEFINITIONS
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The following must be set in the top level distro file:
+#
 #DISTRO_NAME
 #DISTRO_VERSION
 #DISTRO_FEED
 #DISTRO_TYPE
 
 # The following must also be set, they define the basic format of the build
-# The definitions, where present, are the standard defaults.
-#NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE = "b" (big-endian) or "l" (little-endian)
-#NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET = "a" (ARM, 32 bit instructions) or "t" (Thumb, 16 bit instructions)
-#NSLU2_OS = "g" (glibc - linx) or "u" (uclibc - linux-uclibc)
-#NSLU2_INTERWORK = ":thumb-interwork" or ""
-NSLU2_INTERWORK ?= ":thumb-interwork"
+#
+#ARCH_BYTE_SEX "be" or "le"
+#ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET "arm" or "thumb"
+#TARGET_OS "linux" or "linux-uclibc"
+
+# The following need not be set, the defaults should be adequate
 #USE_NLS = "no" or "yes"
 USE_NLS ?= "no"
 
-# These are default values, changed in the top level.
-DISTRO_NAME ?= "nslu2-${NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE}${NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET}${NSLU2_OS}"
-DISTRO_VERSION ?= "private"
-DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
-DISTRO_TYPE ?= "alpha"
+# To make errors easier to identify:
+DISTRO_NAME ?= "INVALID-${ARCH_BYTE_SEX}-${ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET}-${TARGET_OS}"
+DISTRO_VERSION ?= "INVALID"
+DISTRO_FEED ?= "INVALID"
+DISTRO_TYPE ?= "INVALID"
 
 # The following must not be changed.
 TARGET_FPU = "soft"
-TARGET_OS = "${@['linux-uclibc', 'linux'][bb.data.getVar('NSLU2_OS', d, 1) == 'g']}"
-TARGET_ARCH = "${@['arm', 'armeb'][bb.data.getVar('NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE', d, 1) == 'b']}"
-
-# Select thumb-interwork and thumb
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "${@[':thumb', ''][bb.data.getVar('NSLU2_INSTRUCTION_SET', d, 1) == 'a']}"
-ARM_INTERWORK = "${NSLU2_INTERWORK}"
 
 # glib-2.0 builds require USE_NLS to be overridden
 USE_NLS_glib-2.0 = "yes"
 
 INHERIT += "package_ipk debian"
 
-# The value of NSLU2_BASE_DISTRO is added to the OVERRIDES after the DISTRO, this
-# is set to 'openslug' to pick up the original openslug overrides.  See
-# conf/machine/nslu2.conf to find out how this works.
-NSLU2_BASE_DISTRO = ":openslug"
-
-# We are building packages which are armvteb (big endian) for arm or thumbv5tb for
-# thumb instructions.  The PACKAGE_ARCH should reflect this because generated code
-# requires that instruction set support.
-PACKAGE_ARCH = "${NSLU2_PACKAGE_ARCH}"
+# The value of DISTRO_BASE is set to 'openslug' to pick up the original openslug
+# overrides, slugos is the preferred override!
+#FIXME: remove openslug
+DISTRO_BASE = ":slugos:openslug"
 
 # pull in the frozen list of bbfiles - this sets BBFILES and this will override any
 # setting in local.conf  Since this depends on ${DISTRO} it doesn't actually do
@@ -73,28 +74,38 @@ include conf/distro/freeze.conf
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # FEEDS
-#  The following lines define where on the internet UcSlugC looks for packages
+#  The FEED_URIS lines define where on the internet SlugOS looks for packages
 #  when downloading new packages or updating existing packages.  Additional feeds
 #  (such as a local feed) can be defined in local.conf
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Add to the user's feeds from local.conf (there may be none)
+# Add to the user's feeds from local.conf (there may be none).
+# In general slugos-[bl][at][gu] is sufficient to identify a set of packages which
+# will work on any derived distro.  The slugos-???.conf files set the FEED_URIS to
+# an appropriate ipkg.nslu2-linux.org default if nslu2-linux is actually building
+# such a feed:
 #
-# This must be specified in the top level distro file, because a feed for one
-# distro will not work for another.
-#FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${DISTRO}/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
-#FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${DISTRO}/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+#FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${SLUGOS-foo}/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+#FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${SLUGOS-foo}/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
 #
-#FEED_URIS_append += "unstable_cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${DISTRO}/cross/unstable"
-#FEED_URIS_append += "unstable_native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${DISTRO}/native/unstable"
+# When such a feed exists the corresponding 'unstable' feed will normally also
+# exist - the packages in unstable are the latest but very unlikely to be the
+# greatest.  Use at your own risk!
+# 
+#FEED_URIS_append += "unstable_cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${SLUGOS-foo}/cross/unstable"
+#FEED_URIS_append += "unstable_native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/${SLUGOS-foo}/native/unstable"
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # FIRMWARE CONFIGURATION
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # IMAGE BUILD OPTIONS
 # -------------------
+#FIXME: this is historical, there should be a minimal slugos device table and
+# this stuff shouldn't be in here at all (put it in slugos-image.bb!)
+# Why have anything in the config file to control the image build - why not
+# just select a different image .bb file (e.g. slugos-ramdisk-image.bb) to
+# build with different options.
 IMAGE_FSTYPES = "jffs2"
-IMAGE_SEX = "${@['little-endian', 'big-endian'][bb.data.getVar('NSLU2_ARCH_TYPE', d, 1) == 'b']}"
-
+IMAGE_SEX = "${@['big-endian', 'little-endian'][bb.data.getVar('ARCH_BYTE_SEX', d, 1) == 'le']}"
 OPENSLUG_DEVICE_TABLE = "${@bb.which(bb.data.getVar('BBPATH', d, 1), 'files/device_table-openslug.txt')}"
 EXTRA_IMAGECMD_jffs2 = "--pad --${IMAGE_SEX} --eraseblock=0x20000 -D ${OPENSLUG_DEVICE_TABLE}"
 
@@ -104,9 +115,9 @@ EXTRA_IMAGECMD_jffs2 = "--pad --${IMAGE_SEX} --eraseblock=0x20000 -D ${OPENSLUG_
 # issues in the kernel need to cancel this (set CMDLINE_DEBUG empty in local.conf)
 CMDLINE_DEBUG = "noirqdebug"
 
-# IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND is run before making the image.  In UcSlugC the
+# IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND is run before making the image.  In SlugOS the
 # kernel image is removed from the root file system to recover the space used -
-# UcSlugC is assumed to boot from a separate kernel image in flash (not in the
+# SlugOS is assumed to boot from a separate kernel image in flash (not in the
 # root file system), if this is not the case the following must not be done!
 IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND = "rm ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot/zImage*;"
 
@@ -125,28 +136,30 @@ IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND = "rm ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot/zImage*;"
 #NOTE: you do not actually need the boot loader in normal use because it is
 # *not* overwritten by a standard upslug upgrade, so you can make an image with
 # just non-LinkSys software which can be flashed into the NSLU2.
-
+#FIXME: this should not be here, only slugos-image.bb needs this
 #INHERIT += "nslu2-jffs2-image"
 
 # EXTRA PACKAGES
 # --------------
-# UcSlugC builds an openslug-image with no extra packages - to add packages to the
+# SlugOS builds an image with no extra packages - to add packages to the
 # firmware copy this file (to make a new 'distro' configuration file) and change
 # the definition below to include the requirements.
 # NOTE: as built this system will *not* be able to boot off anything other than
 # the flash file system ('turnup' will not work).  You need to add the filesystem
 # modules for your chosen root file system (and any others which will be used).
 # See openslug.conf for a more full-featured system!
-NSLU2_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= ""
-NSLU2_EXTRA_DEPENDS ?= ""
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= ""
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_DEPENDS ?= ""
 
 # These depends define native utilities - they do not get put in the flash.
 # upslug2 (in tmp/work/upslug2-native-*) is the program to write the NSLU2 flash
 # Override this as desired - it makes no difference to the final image.
-NSLU2_NATIVE_DEPENDS ?= "upslug2-native"
+SLUGOS_NATIVE_DEPENDS ?= "upslug2-native"
 
-OPENSLUG_EXTRA_INSTALL = "${NSLU2_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
-OPENSLUG_EXTRA_DEPENDS = "${NSLU2_EXTRA_DEPENDS} ${NSLU2_NATIVE_DEPENDS}"
+#FIXME: this is for openslug-image, slugos-image should be called slugos!
+#FIXME: I find these names confusing, lets just use RDEPENDS and DEPENDS.
+OPENSLUG_EXTRA_INSTALL = "${SLUGOS_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
+OPENSLUG_EXTRA_DEPENDS = "${SLUGOS_EXTRA_DEPENDS} ${SLUGOS_NATIVE_DEPENDS}"
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # PACKAGE VERSION CONTROL
diff --git a/conf/distro/ucslugc.conf b/conf/distro/ucslugc.conf
index fa3f1ba886..2de9010a90 100644
--- a/conf/distro/ucslugc.conf
+++ b/conf/distro/ucslugc.conf
@@ -2,15 +2,11 @@
 #@NAME: UcSlugC
 #@DESCRIPTION: UcSlugC Linux Distribution for the NSLU2
 
-# This is NSLU2-BTU with a feed and a name...
+# This is SLUGOS-BTU with a different name...
 DISTRO_NAME = "UcSlugC"
 DISTRO_VERSION = "3-beta"
 DISTRO_FEED = "unstable"
-DISTRO_TYPE ?= "beta"
-
-# Official UcSlugC feeds:
-FEED_URIS_append += "cross##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/ucslugc/cross/${DISTRO_FEED}"
-FEED_URIS_append += "native##http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/ucslugc/native/${DISTRO_FEED}"
+DISTRO_TYPE = "beta"
 
 # NOTE: to build new packages set UCSLUGC_EXTRA_BBFILES to the full path name to
 # the .bb files for the packages to build - see ucslugc-packages.conf in this
@@ -24,12 +20,8 @@ UCSLUGC_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= ""
 UCSLUGC_EXTRA_DEPENDS ?= ""
 UCSLUGC_NATIVE_DEPENDS ?= "upslug2-native"
 #
-NSLU2_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
-NSLU2_EXTRA_DEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_EXTRA_DEPENDS}"
-NSLU2_NATIVE_DEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_NATIVE_DEPENDS}"
-
-include conf/distro/nslu2-btu.conf
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
+SLUGOS_EXTRA_DEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_EXTRA_DEPENDS}"
+SLUGOS_NATIVE_DEPENDS ?= "${UCSLUGC_NATIVE_DEPENDS}"
 
-#FIXME
-# This seems to be required with thumb.
-#PREFERRED_VERSION_samba ?= "3.0.14a"
+include conf/distro/slugos-btu.conf
diff --git a/conf/distro/unslung.conf b/conf/distro/unslung.conf
index 482f47881a..22b041f521 100644
--- a/conf/distro/unslung.conf
+++ b/conf/distro/unslung.conf
@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ include conf/distro/freeze.conf
 TARGET_FPU = "soft"
 TARGET_OS = "linux"
 
+# select distro specific options to match that of the original LinkSys build
+ARCH_BYTE_SEX = "be"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+THUMB_INTERWORK = "no"
+
+# for compatibility PACKAGE_ARCH stays as TARGET_ARCH and TARGET_ARCH is hard-wired
+# to armeb - this makes this stuff independent of changes in machine/nslu2.conf
+TARGET_ARCH = "armeb"
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${TARGET_ARCH}"
+# IPKG_ARCHS has the full list of supported architectures (from nslu2.conf)
+
+# match the optimisation settings to that which has traditionally been used
+# in unslung
 FULL_OPTIMIZATION = "-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2"
 
 INHERIT += " package_ipk nslu2-jffs2-image"