Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 22:35:00 -0300 From: Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com>, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD Message-ID: <CAB=2f8w2HYFbB2m6oz5QwA%2BwHmv-%2BqTZZG0hzqHeND-uQRfpqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFAOGNRrnHpZHoG%2BtJM1guUVVcVCJhakFCfB5oSSDT-8SgUn8g@mail.gmail.com> References: <518ACFB3.5080104@gmail.com> <CAB=2f8y9RoitgZ8StbP7gGu0=QKkLgsE3PORokJ4S38DzomQYg@mail.gmail.com> <CAFAOGNRrnHpZHoG%2BtJM1guUVVcVCJhakFCfB5oSSDT-8SgUn8g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 15 May 2013 22:02, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 16 May 2013 12:34, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8 May 2013 19:20, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Hi all. I've recently noticed that FreeBSD is quite well supported on > >> MIPS routers. I myself own Mikrotik RouterBoard RB751G-2HnD (specs on > >> http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD ). It seems to be supported. So, is > >> there anyone running FreeBSD on this specific model or a similar one? > >> Can I get some how-to on installing FreeBSD? One thing bugs me, most > >> of these supported routers have 16-64MB flash. How is FreeBSD supposed > >> to fit in that? Is some USB drive required? Thanks, Piotr Kubaj. > >> > > > > Hi Piotr, > > > > Well, its kind of supported but there is no driver for the NAND on it, > > which means you can boot from NAND yet. > > I understand RouterBOOT expects /kernel on a yaffs filesystem. There > is no yaffs support so could u-boot be written there from Linux and > chainload FreeBSD? Yes, it is possible but we would need an appropriate uboot for it. But we don't need to do that, we can simply create a yaffs image (with mkyaffs2) and write it to NAND. I'd it working on RB450 once and it boots just fine. If i remember correctly we can easily create a port for mkyaffs[2]. One thing that would be nice about the uboot is remove the 4MB limitation for the kernel 'slice', but the good thing is that RouterBOOT can read a gzipped kernel. Luiz
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