From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 22:35:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26052106567B for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41CE8FC19 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2GMZkoN004717; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:46 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jb1SE-0006Ay-9h; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:46 +0000 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2GMZkPV052158; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:46 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id m2GMZj7O052155; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:45 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20080316.003854.1973602812.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20080316220847.V19332@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20080309190951.A3822@ury.york.ac.uk> <20080309.154340.-476177382.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080309215651.W3822@ury.york.ac.uk> <20080316.003854.1973602812.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ARM platform page on website X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:35:55 -0000 On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I spent a bit of time on it tonight, based on your description. > There's one hack to the if_npe.c driver that's needed. Once you have > that, then it is relatively simple to get at least a NFS root based > copy of AVILA booting. I've not tried usb yet, nor worked on the rtc, > iic, gpio, etc. Excellent. Does the hack you needed involve copying the MAC address from one place to another? I'm pretty sure I had to do that, and also had to hack the method used to find the correct microcide image. I think the latter change is no longer necessary since if_npe.c 1.6. > I'll be cleaning this up in the next few days, but just wanted to say > thank you for making it sound so easy. No worries, I probably should have said how easy it was to get it at least partially booting. I seem to remember the AVILA kernel config is pretty much usable on the NSLU2 without modification. I'll try to get that RTC code to you some point this week or next, it's on a system that I don't have access to right now. Gavin.