Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:38:54 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ARM platform page on website Message-ID: <20080316.003854.1973602812.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080309215651.W3822@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20080309190951.A3822@ury.york.ac.uk> <20080309.154340.-476177382.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080309215651.W3822@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> writes:
: On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20080309190951.A3822@ury.york.ac.uk>
: > Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> writes:
: > : After trying to bring it up on an NSLU2, I already have plans to update
: > : the other ARM documentation...
: >
: > How far did you get on this? I have a start of a NSLU2 port too, but
: > didn't get too far before life got in the way.
:
: I last looked at it probably nearly a year ago, before other things took
: over. I had it booting up, but failing to recognise the IXP network
: interface. I spent quite a bit of time working on this and was able to
: get to the point where the MAC address and PHY were correctly recognised,
: but it still wouldn't pass packetd.
:
: The kernel would also panic when it tried to initialise USB. My NSLU2 was
: cheap on ebay because the USB ports apparently didn't work on it so I
: never spent any time investigating this, especially given the OS that
: usually ships on it was constantly complaining about USB port issues too.
:
: I think I had a driver written for the RTC too, which I can probably dig
: out if you want it.
I spent a bit of time on it tonight, based on your description.
There's one hack to the if_npe.c driver that's needed. Once you have
that, then it is relatively simple to get at least a NFS root based
copy of AVILA booting. I've not tried usb yet, nor worked on the rtc,
iic, gpio, etc.
I'll be cleaning this up in the next few days, but just wanted to say
thank you for making it sound so easy.
Warner
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