Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:31:58 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Build for Intel iXP420 board? Message-ID: <20201211003158.GK31099@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <202012102248.PAA28768@mail.lariat.net> References: <202012102110.OAA28280@mail.lariat.net> <CANCZdfquMscvtWkYodDyJBU-g3MCKH8ah=HcWV_=oXD%2BR0yVKw@mail.gmail.com> <202012102248.PAA28768@mail.lariat.net>
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Brett Glass wrote this message on Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 15:42 -0700: > FreeBSD 9 or 10! These are just old enough that I can't find archives. Were > Avila images ever published in binary form, or would I have to set up a > development machine, check out old sources, and cross-build? I don't think FreeBSD ever produced images for them. I happen to have used one recently, and even have one within a few feet of me right now.. I don't remember what the last release I ran on them but both 10 and 11 both still have the AVILA config file: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/sys/arm/conf/ You do have the benefit that the boards have u-boot on them (iirc), so you don't have to "deal" with building and putting a custom u-boot to load our loader, but I am trying to remember what I did to load our laoder to boot the UFS image from the CF card... Looks like most of this is documented on the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDAvila I just updated the wiki to make sure people know that these boards are no longer supported. > At 02:25 PM 12/10/2020, Warner Losh wrote: > > >FreeBSD 9 or 10 or maybe 11 is your best bet. 'gateworks' I think > >is what you want to search for in the sources, not avila, but > >maybe you can use both to find them. The armv5 port was removed > >from FreeBSD because it had bit rotted too much. I used to run > >FreeBSD 8 on these boards as a wireless access point shortly after > >Sam committed the code to the tree. I've had good luck with > >FreeBSD stable/10 on other arm gear, but there's been reports of > >issues on stable/10 with unaligned I/O causing problems for some > >cache topologies. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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