From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 00:16:44 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F20D3263 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x236.google.com (mail-qc0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1928950 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id e16so330809qcx.27 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:16:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QGUhgqp1GgwPtoqzuDXcD0B/V+Eq3RM72KskngC6zG0=; b=LDzuKwiMhFBqYraG2EPKEqpcGYwvETawDfBCPldnKv6NNbkXM1aG3sWBEtwc1nC5R3 OcQD3vMxcjFw6mgGHgGWr7JlWckXCOJGAqKw+ICvMQKYIULzB0Pw1LNyZXgLdQhuRv4X FYTHfchdzfliAk48r4rLz8Gan2nmYZCmSRoDYlw71dpM6BFvx13albBJQpTkhbWlGomH /KbWY4StXDjKRHapAV81AvCWHrwoMjKan9MVavWbikg0CYD5C6CSaWP09KLHK8N09GX5 SWOo590iH3d2TQ814rkF2bd0mPFXGMsDoDUmQkhqChr5QXS80/SXhJVNiUieq+m+MJ/J zITg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.88.130 with SMTP id a2mr388759qam.55.1394669803935; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.8.137 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:16:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45AD3205-0198-4F00-9EA7-1D46423B7EA7@gmail.com> References: <45AD3205-0198-4F00-9EA7-1D46423B7EA7@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:16:43 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: CIFtP24iVzwObnC91noeprAagsA Message-ID: Subject: Re: RouterBoard 493G question and AR8327 hardware to donate.. From: Adrian Chadd To: Ben Perrault Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:16:45 -0000 I mean, I'll take it.. :-) I have the RB450 to finish porting, since it has an AR8327 in it. -a On 12 March 2014 16:49, Ben Perrault wrote: > All, > > So I have a MikroTik RB493G, and I while I've got no problems networking = booting it or getting an NFS root, via a slightly modified AR71xx config an= d Adrian's excellent build scripts. > > But what I would like to do is get a bootable kernel / MFS image onto tha= t box so it's self contained. I've tried booting OpenWRT onto it and using = their wget2nand to flash various types of images onto it - with no avail. (= if only there was uboot for these things ) > > I've searched the archives and found mention, from Luiz, on creating a ya= ffs image and write it to the NAND. But I'm not entirely sure how to do thi= s ( i've looked at the docs, and am still a little lost ). It was for a RB4= 50, but it seems most things regarding the RB450/450G apply to the RB493G. > > So does anyone have an idea on how to do that? Is it even possible? > > > Additionally - in a few weeks - I'll have a spare MikroTik CRS-125-24g-1S= -2HnD-In ( which is similar to the RB2011, but with a 24 gigabit switch por= ts and a nifty programable LCD panel ) that I would like to donate to get s= upport for it. It's AR8327 based, which I know just got support in head. I'= m assuming adrian would be the person to talk to, but I could be wrong. Is = there interest? It would be a neat box for soft switching stuff, for sure. > > cheers and thanks, > -bp