Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:30:42 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: mips@freebsd.org, jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz Subject: Re: How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO Message-ID: <20120402003042.c67e423a.ray@ddteam.net> In-Reply-To: <CACVs6=9%2BJpXvJKeeA0J55nfZQx3d679LArJH22LGUd89q45Cww@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120401185845.9065dc3f@tchuza> <CACVs6=9%2BJpXvJKeeA0J55nfZQx3d679LArJH22LGUd89q45Cww@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:18:09 -0700 Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Do you want to boot the RS Pro from network, or from NAND? If from > network, there are probably instructions elsewhere that would be more > useful, and hopefully someone else knows where to link to (I don't.) > > If you want to boot from NAND, things get a little tricky. FreeBSD > doesn't have usable NAND support yet, so you'll have to boot Linux to > copy the kernel to NAND flash, and you'll have to erase NAND from the > bootloader before doing that otherwise Linux may place the FreeBSD > kernel outside of the range that RouterBOOT is willing to read from. > Also, you kernel has to be under 4MB big for the same reason. IIRC RSPro have 16M of NOR flash (cfi driver), not NAND :) > > If you can get that all sorted out (and I'm happy to help you if this > isn't too daunting) you'll need to use the patches Patrick Kelsey > posted recently to add MMC support on SPI buses to keep your root file > system on an SD card. > > It's kind of a pain right now, and I haven't included detailed > instructions here because this all is in a bit of a state of flux > right now. Someone should be committing Patrick's MMC driver soon > (I'll likely do it if nobody else does) and then NAND support should > be improving in the near future. It may be that in the very near > future it will be possible to simply netboot a kernel with a > compiled-in root filesystem that then installs the kernel and root > filesystem for you, but for now it's a lot of work piecing together a > working NAND setup, and then using makefs to create a big-endian > filesystem and put it on an SD card. If you want to give it a shot > right now, do let me know, and I'll gather up the more detailed > instructions I have and post them to the list. > > Thanks, > Juli. > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:58, Jan Augusta <jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz> > wrote: > > Hello, > > can anybody give me a manual how to compile and install Freebsd to > > Routerstation PRO? > > > > Thanks > > Jan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
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