Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:43:06 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA EDEN board-based unit Message-ID: <200802251743.06886.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47B8D60A.70000@jellydonut.org> References: <47B50E1B.4000102@denninger.net> <47B8D60A.70000@jellydonut.org>
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On Sunday 17 February 2008 07:49:14 pm Michael Proto wrote: > > Karl Denninger wrote: > > I was able to load it successfully off a CD. > > > > The PXE boot fails. It loads the kernel, and then chokes. No idea why. > > > > This is what the system identifies as: > > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 > > root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > > CPU: VIA/IDT Unknown (1196.92-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x6d0 Stepping = 0 > > > > > Completely unrelated, but may save you a search later on. Your VIA C7's > CPU ID is identical to mine (0x6d0), which the 6 and 7-series kernels > don't detect as such (evident by the "VIA/IDT Unknown" CPU in your > dmesg). If you want to use the padlock crypto features of the CPU you > will need to patch the initcpu.c and identcpu.c files in /sys/i386/i386 > and build a new kernel. The patch below works under 6.3-RELEASE Committed a variation (called it C7 Eden) to HEAD and will MFC in a few days. -- John Baldwin
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