Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:33 -0700 From: Ben Perrault <ben.perrault@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RouterBoard 493G question and AR8327 hardware to donate.. Message-ID: <9C30771D-0607-4246-852D-68F60D2CB56F@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=049SzLFp4Mn-cQTMc4B9VVq65LOOhq%2B8TFemt7Fb=sw@mail.gmail.com> References: <45AD3205-0198-4F00-9EA7-1D46423B7EA7@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=049SzLFp4Mn-cQTMc4B9VVq65LOOhq%2B8TFemt7Fb=sw@mail.gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_D9565200-8FFD-41D5-8151-8C09B43931FC Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Cool - I=92ll let you know when the CRS-125-24g-1S-2HnD-In is in hand.=20= And thats great news on the RB450G, though i thought ( and the RB493G ) = had AR8316s in them ( I could be, and probably am, wrong though. ). = Still awesome to here. I would love to get this thing self contained ( = like my RouterStation Pros ).=20 cheers, -bp On Mar 12, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > I mean, I'll take it.. :-) >=20 > I have the RB450 to finish porting, since it has an AR8327 in it. >=20 >=20 > -a >=20 >=20 > On 12 March 2014 16:49, Ben Perrault <ben.perrault@gmail.com> wrote: >> All, >>=20 >> 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 and Adrian's excellent build scripts. >>=20 >> But what I would like to do is get a bootable kernel / MFS image onto = that 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 ) >>=20 >> I've searched the archives and found mention, from Luiz, on creating = a yaffs image and write it to the NAND. But I'm not entirely sure how to = do this ( i've looked at the docs, and am still a little lost ). It was = for a RB450, but it seems most things regarding the RB450/450G apply to = the RB493G. >>=20 >> So does anyone have an idea on how to do that? Is it even possible? >>=20 >>=20 >> 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 ports and a nifty programable LCD panel ) that I would = like to donate to get support 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. >>=20 >> cheers and thanks, >> -bp --Apple-Mail=_D9565200-8FFD-41D5-8151-8C09B43931FC Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTIhBBAAoJEEInLzcq699tbhoP/2bEbEbPhaK0ZF0Q5F/j5iJY NeAOoCt0esQ8vGjqpnftRRI1/0dP819sd9EfAjtAjxMRmxHgli1o1D8zRl5QTLFZ tgX1I1E34wB0Lb3rWcc3r3zSZUvuS2WIqcmgi8HdFoaaaCz+cAZa8OkbxAAI+rJB hMbxmx26zwel+Mf9y8RQfA8L5ZxqTy2l3XI0N5aZB8omzwpS8TWwPvHYuPdyUqTW edr3oUH/YY1uun0h1Wz6ZgqH038FU77QVIEKMtxsHoFholoxw9uvv/RkJmn8mekT ZUd6mKySlsLkE5uhOpQWnJqiOBnsAn0X8gUbaXr12NRInUwCqtoxS4nxC/aMgZt6 lgprCh3UhhEey27hRz16BUMxhyjbUaC5aYFNFp/t8S9IESJNY6YA8Auu9u5zIb5E NAg4K351v/60gcpDSZeTQwd38GUcjiyJMTiNBHfhcQxIA3JHfa4wZwvSkqTaWNHX Fyed9ZmXx6Ju7Oo6uaKGmHFhuDk/zPFlgT8tgaOVFPPD4J7VK+pjPtEq0/uWhZCE EKvCe6pXm1DxK/xmF5fCB4FFJw4FYp5Crqxn7vej8iqI1PU4LI5F6wc1eS4LCCWf 0wtQlsbH94blx7bKKgZb1/RHDzaTf9U/zBeHyJmF+OPlYr0AVjGZ6FopEaXMuOji F1qod3Z8mC1PPhKQ1BYk =oz/z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_D9565200-8FFD-41D5-8151-8C09B43931FC--
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