Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 20:41:54 -0800 From: pete@nomadlogic.org (Pete Wright) To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Utilite Freescale i.MX6 support Message-ID: <20140203044149.GA56291@mail.nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <1391374550.13026.60.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <52E94AE3.5080404@nomadlogic.org> <1391374550.13026.60.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 01:55:50PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 10:39 -0800, Pete Wright wrote: > > Hello, > > I have recently purchase this device and am interested in trying to get > > FreeBSD running on it: > > > > http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models > > > > I currently have the system booting fine with the provided Debian image > > they ship with these system. At the end of this message is the output > > of dmesg from linux-land. > > > > Helpful documentation is also available here: > > http://utilite-computer.com/download/documentation//utilite/utilite-technical-reference-manual.pdf > > > > From what I can tell Utilite has done a good job at being open about > > their spec's and components. Hopefully this will help get it ported. I > > am personally excited about the dual Intel GBE NIC's on this system and > > would love to test this box out as an embedded router/firewall/nat device. > > > > Is there a good reference I can start from for this chipset? I am not > > %100 clear on which guide I should be following. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > -pete > > > > > > <begin Linux dmesg> > > [snipped] > > > > I'm sorry it has taken me so long to reply to this. Until today my > reply would have had to been basically "freebsd will only kinda-sorta > run on that box," and every day I've been hoping to fix the > show-stopping bug and have something better to report. As of today > (r261410) the infamous wrong-endian bug is fixed and I think you won't > have too much trouble getting freebsd running on that unit. > no worries thanks for the reply! <snip> > To get started, you should probably start with the Wandboard dts files > and kernel config. One thing that jumps out at me is that the Utilite > uses uart ports 2 and 4, so to have a serial console for debugging > you'll need to change the dts source to enable uart2 and select it as > the console in the choosen {...} block. Unfortunately, because it's > Compulab, you'll probably have to buy their overpriced serial cable with > the weird connector on it (they do the same thing on the FitPc2). > thanks for the pointers! i was lucky enough to have them include the serial console cable with the box at no additional cost so no worries there. i did create an image using crochet-freebsd using the wanboard-quad config. it was failing trying to load uboot it looked like (no output on console) so i have some testing to do on that end (and bug reports too as well). i will re-build the images tonight to grab the latest patches as well as including the change for dts source as well. since the box already has uboot installed on it i was assuming i could just copy over the kernel image via nfs or tftp...so i will try that as well. cheers! -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org twitter => @nomadlogicLA
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