From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 28 14:01:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83834FE for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:01:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from duck.symmetricom.us (duck.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4259ED18 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (daffy.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.218]) by duck.symmetricom.us (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r0SE1CrU045846 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:01:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r0SE0n1u020850; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:00:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: DreamPlug support committed From: Ian Lepore To: Johan Henselmans In-Reply-To: <13FCC2A8-A394-491A-815B-CDEE6DA95237@netsense.nl> References: <1359306117.93359.29.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <13FCC2A8-A394-491A-815B-CDEE6DA95237@netsense.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:00:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1359381648.93359.63.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:01:39 -0000 On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 09:28 +0100, Johan Henselmans wrote: > On 27 jan. 2013, at 18:01, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > FYI, I've committed the last missing bits of support for the DreamPlug, > > so as of r245955 it's now possible to build for dreamplug without > > needing any extra patches, using stock kernel config DREAMPLUG-1001. I > > also included the .dts file for the rare model 1001N (contains nand > > flash rather than nor flash). The kernel config file has a little > > comment block at the end that says what to change to build for the 1001N > > model (of which there are probably only a few dozen in the wild). > > > > As the name implies, the kernel and dts config files are for a model > > 1001 dreamplug, but I think the same config will work properly on an > > 0901 model as well, at least until we have wifi drivers for both. (As I > > understand it, different wifi chips are the primary difference between > > the 0901 and 1001 models.) > > > > There's a good chance this config would also work properly for a > > GuruPlug, or need only minor changes. If anyone has a GuruPlug and > > wants to try it, I'd be happy to work without you to figure out if there > > are any changes needed and get them committed too. > > > > -- Ian > > > > Thanks Ian. I compiled an earlier FreeBSD version for the dreamplug, that did not support the wireless chip on the dreamplug. > > According to Linux code that should be a Marvell 8787. > > Do the current patches take care of the wireless driver? Unfortunately, they don't. I'm not really set up to work on a wifi driver; I don't have the gear or the knowledge. I'd be happy to work with someone else who wants to work on it though, to make sure the results get committed. -- Ian