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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:17:37 +0100
From:      Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org>
To:        Roman Le Houelleur <roman@IPricot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel IXDP425 eval board
Message-ID:  <20070116121737.GA9004@ci0.org>
In-Reply-To: <45ACA11B.8060301@IPricot.com>

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:55:39AM +0100, Roman Le Houelleur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, congratulation for the work being done porting
> FreeBSD to the IXP425 !
> 
> I have an IXDP425 eval board rev A3 from Intel on which I
> tried the AVILA procedure as is, just in case, strictly
> following information from:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/README-gateworks
> 
> Unfortunatly it will not "go", but just freeze:
> RedBoot> reset
> ... Resetting.
> +in bist
> out bist
> begin @ 0x00008f60 ; end @ 0x00008f70
> (0) init_entry = 0x00008f60 ; fun @ 0x50005ef8
> (1) init_entry = 0x00008f64 ; fun @ 0x50017ef0
> (2) init_entry = 0x00008f68 ; fun @ 0x500071d4
> (3) init_entry = 0x00008f6c ; fun @ 0x5001f534
> nfe : regval[0] = 0x0013
> Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:00:83:28:50:22
> IP: 172.16.0.44, Default server: 172.16.0.50
> 
> RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]
>  release, version 1.92p1 - built 17:24:25, Jul 19 2004
> 
> Platform: IXP425 ANTA (XScale)
> Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> RAM: 0x00000000-0x08000000, 0x0001c068-0x07fd1000 available
> FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x51000000, 128 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
> RedBoot> ip -h 192.168.31.182 -l 192.168.31.90
> IP: 192.168.31.90, Default server: 192.168.31.182
> RedBoot> load -b 0x200000 kernel-avila.nfs
> Using default protocol (TFTP)
> Address offset = 0x40000000
> Entry point: 0x00200100, address range: 0x00200000-0x006c9aa8
> RedBoot> go
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this board ? Does it
> have any chance to work w/ the AVILA kernel config, or
> is this one too specific ?
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Dec 14 16:10:30 UTC 2006
> 
> Regards,
> Roman.


Hi Roman,


It should definitively go further. I don't know the IXDP425, doesn't it have
two UART ports ? If so, could you try using the other one ?
It should at least print something, I see nothing AVILA-centric in the early
initialization code.

Thanks,

Olivier


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