From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 20:08:41 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 77D8F5E8; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com (mail-pa0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4184D9C0; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id hz1so1606030pad.35 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :message-id:references:to; bh=n9i9DRW13TZR5HQpKuTNwZ2mpBquh/CplbuRxvPNs1w=; b=e0Ju2YLmki1vmaCENYyX+OUkC8X2yzSINtHANabnC7SlRRnXZ8blzi0nXdlTrHVx01 3945aUQx6b/dzWEcvtRjO+2nRYal7xXaxsWybfk/Gin3ilvoPP+E5zFiYnVn6cihBZsa WLO2U6xX9rjHRt70d9ffXP/tMpcFqFFzDtoOZpb2WQ7OR1EHqeoPmo7EJD7ow5Tt8r0q bizb/w+F5vhZRbMiR4MqMdloIh6/cBEkYsWhxEnDuuM/zRFe0LE/5Y4Q8NsXVq/syho7 TFmqYNcX2WeM92rnDy0VjJWzIVP/6diEm48H1UTWftlITEZx2U8HHb2nNEM6mAiWWO+j 0TYw== X-Received: by 10.69.31.43 with SMTP id kj11mr4550707pbd.67.1394741320875; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neil.creepingfur.org (ashpool.creepingfur.org. 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From: Ben Perrault In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:33 -0700 Message-Id: <9C30771D-0607-4246-852D-68F60D2CB56F@gmail.com> References: <45AD3205-0198-4F00-9EA7-1D46423B7EA7@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) 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 20:08:41 -0000 --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 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 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--