Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:33:00 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phocking@no-wire.net Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateworks and RB500 Message-ID: <20061122.203300.-432837012.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4564F381.7090808@no-wire.net> <4560F437.5060402@errno.com> References: <4564F381.7090808@no-wire.net>
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Phill Hocking <phocking@no-wire.net> writes:
: I have plenty of Avilas and RouterBOARDS, and I know a bit about *BSD
: and embedded systems; how can I help get the wheels of freedom rolling
: on these platforms? These lists seem low-volume, are there any forums?
: Daily builds or anything that boots even?
You are in luck. Support for the Avilas has just been committed.
Support for a RouterBOARD is likely a little further out (it is MIPS
based, no?).
Sam Laffler sent out he following mail to freebsd-arm a couple of days
ago:
: I just committed the code to make 2348 boards usable. But there are
: some caveats.
:
: 1. The npe (wired ethernet) support requires Intel firmware that we
: cannot distribute (yet); you must obtain it from the Intel web site if
: you don't otherwise have it (e.g. in a Gateworks Linux distribution).
:
: 2. The compact flash ide support needs a change to
: sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c; roll back that file to rev 1.274.
:
: 3. If you want to use ath cards in the minipci slots you'll need to use
: a newer hal than what is in CVS. I believe the tarball at
: http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20060909.tgz will work but am not
: sure. I'm working on getting a known-good version together.
:
: This stuff has mostly been tested booting with an NFS-mounted root
: filesystem. I've placed instructions on how I do this at:
:
: http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/README-gateworks
:
: I believe most of the important stuff is working. The main thing
: missing is read/write to flash. We're also not fully setup for booting
: from compact flash (because redboot does not grok ufs filesystems) but
: that's not a big deal as there are several ways to deal with this.
:
: There's still a lot of room for improvement. It'd be nice if someone
: could add the PMC support to help in doing performance tuning.
:
: Sam
This should be enough to get you started.
As this support is relatively new, there's not been any daily builds
or anything like that. Stay tuned.
Warner
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