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Date:      Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:27:50 +0100
From:      Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>
To:        John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Routerboard RB433AH
Message-ID:  <CA%2BsBSo%2BUh0fhbs10gEHfqgRytnDz=Tkc9gaSRfTmmwJgZB8J7w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120607184354.GB90876@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
References:  <20120607184354.GB90876@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>

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Sorry for being too late, have you solved this issue?

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:43 PM, John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a RB433AH that is not doing anything and was wondering if one
> can run FreeBSD on it. For a start I thought of just a NFS boot. I
> started with the AR71XX_BASE  config file and removed the USB and
> other stuff that I think I do not need and can get it load the kernel
> and start it. But it looks like there is a problem with the ethernet
> because I get stuck at:
>
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> Sending DHCP Discover packet from interface arge0 (00:0c:42:90:f9:de)
> arge0: link state changed to DOWN
> arge0: link state changed to UP
> DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
> DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
> ...
>
> This just keeps on repeating.
>
> Maybe I need some specific setup for the ethernet / phy. Anybody with
> ideas?
>
> The boot looks like this:
> #######################################
> RouterBOOT booter 2.29
>
> RouterBoard 433AH
>
> CPU frequency: 680 MHz
>   Memory size: 128 MB
>
> Press any key within 5 seconds to enter setup.....
> trying bootp protocol.... OK
> Got IP address: 146.64.84.18
> resolved mac address 1C:6F:65:C2:00:A7
> Gateway: 146.64.84.1
> transfer started ............................................ transfer ok, time=2.55s
> setting up elf image... OK
> jumping to kernel code
> CPU platform: Atheros AR7161 rev 2
> CPU Frequency=680 MHz
> CPU DDR Frequency=340 MHz
> CPU AHB Frequency=170 MHz
> platform frequency: 680000000
> arguments:
>   a0 = 00000008
>   a1 = a0871c00
>   a2 = 00000000
>   a3 = 00000000
> Cmd line: console=ttyS0,115200 gpio=4031 HZ=340000000 mem=128M kmac=00:0C:42:90:F9:DE board=433 boot=1 mlc=2
> Environment:
> envp is invalid
> Cache info:
>   picache_stride    = 4096
>   picache_loopcount = 16
>   pdcache_stride    = 4096
>   pdcache_loopcount = 8
> cpu0: MIPS Technologies processor v116.147
>   MMU: Standard TLB, 16 entries
>   L1 i-cache: 4 ways of 512 sets, 32 bytes per line
>   L1 d-cache: 4 ways of 256 sets, 32 bytes per line
>   Config1=0x9ee3519e<PerfCount,WatchRegs,MIPS16,EJTAG>
>   Config3=0x20
> KDB: debugger backends: ddb
> KDB: current backend: ddb
> Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #11: Thu Jun  7 18:11:38 SAST 2012
>     johnnie@ray.cids.org.za:/usr/obj/mips.mips/usr/src/sys/RB433 mips
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
> MEMGUARD DEBUGGING ALLOCATOR INITIALIZED:
>         MEMGUARD map base: 0xc0400000
>         MEMGUARD map limit: 0xc1800000
>         MEMGUARD map size: 20480 KBytes
> real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
> avail memory = 24969216 (23MB)
> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
> nexus0: <MIPS32 root nexus>
> clock0: <Generic MIPS32 ticker> on nexus0
> Timecounter "MIPS32" frequency 340000000 Hz quality 800
> Event timer "MIPS32" frequency 340000000 Hz quality 800
> apb0 at irq 4 on nexus0
> uart0: <16550 or compatible> on apb0
> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
> gpio0: <Atheros AR71XX GPIO driver> on apb0
> gpio0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> gpio0: gpio pinmask=0x0
> gpioc0: <GPIO controller> on gpio0
> gpiobus0: <GPIO bus> on gpio0
> pcib0 at irq 0 on nexus0
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> arge0: <Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet interface> at mem 0x19000000-0x19000fff irq 2 on nexus0
> arge0: No PHY specified, using mask 16
> arge0: finishing attachment, phymask 0010, proxy null
> miibus0: <MII bus> on arge0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 4 on miibus0
> ukphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> arge0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:42:90:f9:de
> arge1: <Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet interface> at mem 0x1a000000-0x1a000fff irq 3 on nexus0
> arge1: No PHY specified, using mask 15
> arge1: finishing attachment, phymask 000f, proxy null
> arge1: unable to attach PHY 0: 6
> device_attach: arge1 attach returned 6
> spi0: <AR71XX SPI> at mem 0x1f000000-0x1f00000f on nexus0
> spibus0: <spibus bus> on spi0
> mx25l0: <M25Pxx Flash Family> at cs 0 on spibus0
> Unknown SPI flash device. Vendor: 00, device id: 0000
> device_attach: mx25l0 attach returned 6
> ar71xx_wdog0: <Atheros AR71XX watchdog timer> on nexus0
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> Sending DHCP Discover packet from interface arge0 (00:0c:42:90:f9:de)
> arge0: link state changed to DOWN
> arge0: link state changed to UP
> DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
> DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
> ...
> #######################################
>
> I did a tcpdump and cannot see any packets coming from the board.
>
> My config looks like this:
>
> #######################################
> machine         mips mips
> ident           RB433
> cpu             CPU_MIPS4KC
> makeoptions     KERNLOADADDR=0x80050000
> options         HZ=1000
> options         HWPMC_HOOKS
>
> files           "../atheros/files.ar71xx"
>
> # For now, hints are per-board.
>
> hints           "RB433.hints"
>
> makeoptions     DEBUG=-g                #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
>
> # Build these as modules so small platform builds will have the
> # modules already built.
> makeoptions     MODULES_OVERRIDE="random gpio ar71xx if_gif if_gre if_bridge bridgestp wlan wlan_xauth wlan_acl wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_ccmp wlan_rssadapt wlan_amrr ath ath_pci"
>
> options         DDB
> options         KDB
>
> options         SCHED_4BSD              #4BSD scheduler
> options         INET                    #InterNETworking
> options         INET6                   # IPv6
> options         NFSCL                   #Network Filesystem Client
> options         NFS_ROOT                #NFS usable as /, requires NFSCL
> options         BOOTP
> options         BOOTP_NFSROOT
> options         BOOTP_NFSV3
> #options         BOOTP_WIRED_TO=arge0
> options         BOOTP_COMPAT
> options         ROOTDEVNAME=\"nfs:146.64.84.9:/export/mips\"
>
>
> # options               NFS_CL          #Network Filesystem Client
>
> options         PSEUDOFS                #Pseudo-filesystem framework
> options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
>
> # options               NFS_LEGACYRPC
> # Debugging for use in -current
> options         INVARIANTS
> options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT
> options         WITNESS
> options         WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
> options         DEBUG_REDZONE
> options         DEBUG_MEMGUARD
>
> options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> # options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
> # options         UFS_ACL                 #Support for access control lists
> # options         UFS_DIRHASH             #Improve performance on big directories
> # options               MSDOSFS                 # Read MSDOS filesystems; useful for USB/CF
>
> device          pci
> device          ar71xx_pci
>
> # 802.11 framework
> options         IEEE80211_DEBUG
> options         IEEE80211_ALQ
> options         IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH
> # This option is currently broken for if_ath_tx.
> options         IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA
> options         IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE
> device          wlan            # 802.11 support
> device          wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
> device          wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
> device          wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
> device          wlan_xauth      # 802.11 hostap support
>
> # Atheros wireless NICs
> device          ath             # Atheros interface support
> device          ath_pci         # Atheros PCI/Cardbus bus
> options         ATH_DEBUG
> options         ATH_DIAGAPI
> options         ATH_ENABLE_11N
> options         AH_DEBUG
> options         AH_DEBUG_ALQ
> options         ALQ
> device          ath_hal
> option          AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
> device          ath_rate_sample
> option          AH_RXCFG_SDMAMW_4BYTES
> option          AH_AR5416_INTERRUPT_MITIGATION
> # There's no DFS radar detection support yet so this won't actually
> # detect radars.  It however does enable the rest of the channel change
> # machinery so DFS can be debugged.
> option          ATH_ENABLE_DFS
>
> device          mii
> device          arge
>
> #device         usb
> #options                USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC        # handle big-endian byte order
> #options                USB_DEBUG
> #options                USB_HOST_ALIGN=32               # AR71XX (MIPS in general?) requires this
> #device         ehci
>
> device          scbus
> #device         umass
> device          da
>
> # On-board SPI flash
> device          spibus
> device          ar71xx_spi
> device          mx25l
> device          ar71xx_wdog
>
> device          uart
>
> device          loop
> device          ether
> device          md
> device          bpf
> device          random
> device          if_bridge
> device          gif             # ip[46] in ip[46] tunneling protocol
> device          gre             # generic encapsulation - only for IPv4 in IPv4 though atm
>
> options         ARGE_DEBUG      # Enable if_arge debugging for now
>
> # Enable GPIO
> device          gpio
> device          gpioled
> #######################################
> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/mips/conf/AR71XX_BASE.hints,v 1.1 2011/12/29 05:51:48 adrian Exp $
> #
> hint.apb.0.at="nexus0"
> hint.apb.0.irq=4
>
> # uart0
> hint.uart.0.at="apb0"
> # see atheros/uart_cpu_ar71xx.c why +3
> hint.uart.0.maddr=0x18020003
> hint.uart.0.msize=0x18
> hint.uart.0.irq=3
>
> #ohci
> hint.ohci.0.at="apb0"
> hint.ohci.0.maddr=0x1c000000
> hint.ohci.0.msize=0x01000000
> hint.ohci.0.irq=6
>
> #ehci
> hint.ehci.0.at="nexus0"
> hint.ehci.0.maddr=0x1b000000
> hint.ehci.0.msize=0x01000000
> hint.ehci.0.irq=1
>
> # pci
> hint.pcib.0.at="nexus0"
> hint.pcib.0.irq=0
>
> hint.arge.0.at="nexus0"
> hint.arge.0.maddr=0x19000000
> hint.arge.0.msize=0x1000
> hint.arge.0.irq=2
>
> # phymask, media and fduplex depend upon the specific
> # board.
> # So each board will override the settings as needed.
>
> hint.arge.1.at="nexus0"
> hint.arge.1.maddr=0x1a000000
> hint.arge.1.msize=0x1000
> hint.arge.1.irq=3
>
> # SPI flash
> hint.spi.0.at="nexus0"
> hint.spi.0.maddr=0x1f000000
> hint.spi.0.msize=0x10
>
> hint.mx25l.0.at="spibus0"
> hint.mx25l.0.cs=0
>
> # Watchdog
> hint.ar71xx_wdog.0.at="nexus0"
>
> # GPIO
> hint.gpio.0.at="apb0"
> hint.gpio.0.maddr=0x18040000
> hint.gpio.0.msize=0x1000
> hint.gpio.0.irq=2
>
> # Each board should override the GPIO bus pins with the configuration
> # relevant to it. Thus no pins are defined here.
>
> # hwpmc device
> hint.ar71xx_pmc.0.at="apb0"
> hint.ar71xx_pmc.0.irq=5
> #######################################
>
>
> Thanks
>
> John
> --
> John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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Monthadar Al Jaberi



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