Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:20:15 -0700 From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> To: Alexander Mogilny <sg@sg.org.ua> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB450G Message-ID: <2D2B1168-4E11-4353-8856-FD2728413F1B@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <9C6B899F-0361-4E20-A9C4-20C002A3CA1D@sg.org.ua> References: <9C6B899F-0361-4E20-A9C4-20C002A3CA1D@sg.org.ua>
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On 2010-06-11, at 5:05 AM, Alexander Mogilny wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have recently purchased RB450G router and was not
> satisfied with RouterOS so I decided to install FreeBSD
> on this device.
> There are some issues with starting FreeBSD on this device
> so I would like to help community to fix some code and get
> this device working.
>
> Default AR71XX kernel failed to boot. Boot process stopped
> at ohci device detection (it just hanged). When I commented
> it out in hints file I got following:
>
.. skipped ..
>
> As you can see ethernet card got incorrect ethernet address.
> What could cause this? Perhaps I can somehow give you some more
> debug information?
RouterBoard and Routerstation use different approaches for passing
device-dependent data (MAC address, memsize) to kernel. Routerstation
uses redboot that passes key-value pairs in environment memory area
while RouterBoard's own boot loader passes them as key-value pairs in argv.
Some minor hackery required to get it working. It's not done yet because I
didn't have a chance to get my hands on AR71XX-based routerboard :)
--
gonzo
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