Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:49:18 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ARM platform page on website Message-ID: <20080316.164918.-135507428.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080316220847.V19332@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20080309215651.W3822@ury.york.ac.uk> <20080316.003854.1973602812.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080316220847.V19332@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> writes:
: 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 think you must be right, since it just works for me. I had to use
PHY address 1. I need to add support for that.
: > 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.
Yes. They are nearly all in common. In fact, I've been trying to
modify the config files to make them more common.
: 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.
That would be cool! I'll look into the usb issues too.
Warner
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