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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:23:45 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
To:        Eric <lihong@ieee.org>
Cc:        Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Add Wistron RPAA-82 board support
Message-ID:  <20091102012345.GA49898@citylink.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <1257124725.3097.2.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:18:45AM +0800, Eric wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:52 -0700, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> >      There are some excessive code in the patch. e.g. GEOM will take care for
> > use that data offset and size are sector-size aligned/multiple. So I reworked
> > your patch a little bit:
> >      http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/mips/mx25.diff
> > 
> > Could you, please, test it and let me know if it works for you.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> It cannot format redboot partition by newfs:
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> redboot/fbsd-root.uzip: 6144 x 8192 blocks
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/redboot/fbsd-root.uzip
> warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set
> accurately
> start_init: trying /etc/init
> eval: cannot create /flash/hostid: Read-only file system
> /etc/rc: WARNING: could not store hostuuid in /flash/hostid.
> mount: /dev/ufs/config : No such file or directory
> Mounting /etc/fstab filesystems failed,  startup aborted
> ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)!
> Oct 27 01:58:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to
> single user mode
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 
>                                                     # 
> # 
> # df
> Filesystem                  512-blocks  Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/redboot/fbsd-root.uzip      98078 62252 27980    69%    /
> devfs                                2     2     0   100%    /dev
> # ls /dev/redboot
> FIS directory	RedBoot config	fbsd-kern	fbsd-root.uzip	vmlinux.bin.l7
> RedBoot		fbsd-data	fbsd-root	rootfs
> # newfs -n -o space -L config -O 1 -b 4096 -f 512 /dev/redboot/fbsd-data
> /dev/redboot/fbsd-data: 0.6MB (1280 sectors) block size 4096, fragment
> size 512
> 	using 4 cylinder groups of 0.16MB, 41 blks, 96 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> newfs: wtfs: 20480 bytes at sector 32: Invalid argument

The problem here is the flash sector size is 64k. Pretending the flash
has a 512b sector isnt the right way, you would be better off having a
geom class to do the transformation+caching.


Andrew



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