From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 14:39:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B08EAE for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC82C942 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ULaSr-0008P5-PS; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:39:33 +0000 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 r2TEdV5R014591; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:39:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19MOJ5DsCQTd6h/hJ+FCM9P Subject: Re: Dreamplug, BOOTP, NFS root, DHCP From: Ian Lepore To: Mattia Rossi In-Reply-To: <51541AE6.1090101@gmail.com> References: <1364351344.36972.35.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <51541AE6.1090101@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:39:31 -0600 Message-ID: <1364567971.36972.124.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@FreeBSD.org 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: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:39:34 -0000 On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:26 +0100, Mattia Rossi wrote: > Am 27.03.2013 03:29, schrieb Ian Lepore: > > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 19:11 +0100, Mattia Rossi wrote: > >> Hi all, > >>[...] > >> > >> Mat > > I've only got a few minutes available right now, so not much to offer, > > except... could you put a world on a usb thumb drive and recompile the > > kernel for a /dev/daNxx root path? Even better would be a world on an > > eSata drive if you have one. (One of those multi-slot docks that holds > > a couple drives and is both a usb dock and an eSata port multiplier, is > > a nifty thing for a dreamplug owner to have.) > > > > Hi Ian, > > thanks for the tip, I just didn't think about that.. it's great to have > that choice of connectivity on the Dreamplug :-) > Now I've been able to install world again, and it seems to basically > work. Next step is to check which devices are not supported yet, and to > figure out what and if I'm able to do something there. > > Cheers, and thanks again for the Kernel conf and dts file. They work > like a charm so far. > > Mat Good to hear you're up and running again. The thing we most need for dreamplug is a wifi driver. Unfortunately there are two layers of pain in getting there... a driver for the device itself, and a complete reworking of our MMC/SD support since the wifi part apparently uses SDIO and we don't have good support for that right now. -- Ian