Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:10:50 +0100 From: Balanga Bar <balanga.bar@gmail.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell Kirkwood - anyone? Message-ID: <CADocevC8LpuxuFd9rpo3VPn1Otwws3qRr2rY6c2VuMyTGqF8Cw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <693425711bdc5e7fbff22bb4056c33326fca8c4d.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CADocevBefY03R2QMKfnsuSp=XM4WBGC3yQFLzQ=1zuD7GGk5qQ@mail.gmail.com> <693425711bdc5e7fbff22bb4056c33326fca8c4d.camel@freebsd.org>
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All I'm really looking for is some update for a number of web pages including https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell which show how to build FreeBSD for the platform. The build process seems to have changed somewhat over the last few years and instructions do not mention which version of FreeBSD is being used. Since I already have a couple of GoFlex Home units I would like to try and get FreeBSD installed on them. It seems that people managed to get FreeBSD working on these as long ago as seven years ago, so I'm only trying to recreate something that has already been done, but getting a working build installed is proving somewhat problematic. The most frustrating things is that when I manage to create a build which will boot, there is generally a kernel panic soon after, and the system will not subsequently boot and I don't know how to identify why this occurred. On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:12 PM Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 06:23 +0000, Balanga Bar wrote: > > Is anyone using any Marvell Kirkwood devices? > > > > I'm trying to build a reliable system, but am struggling to make it > > work. > > Could do with some help on the correct way of building it. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To be honest, the Kirkwood stuff is all but completely unsupported at > this point. A few people over the past few years have reported some > success with it. My own experience is that no armv4 or v5 platforms > have really worked reliably for many years. When it does work for > people, they're just lucky that they're not running into any of the > bugs that are known to exist in the old arm support. > > Basically the problem is resources: there is nobody both willing and > able to support the old armv5 stuff anymore. The company I work for > used to put their resources into supporting old arm chips, but we've > moved on to armv7 stuff for the current products, so I don't get to > spend $work hours on armv5 support anymore. > > So all in all, you're really better off with some newer armv7 or v8 > (64-bit) hardware. It's cheaper and more powerful, but you do miss out > on one thing that Kirkwood supported: dual GigE ports, which just don't > seem to exist in the modern arm world. > > -- Ian > >
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