Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:41:19 -0800 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Utilite Freescale i.MX6 support Message-ID: <52EFD4BF.9060704@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <1391435656.13026.78.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <52E94AE3.5080404@nomadlogic.org> <1391374550.13026.60.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140203044149.GA56291@mail.nomadlogic.org> <1391435656.13026.78.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 02/03/14 05:54, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 20:41 -0800, Pete Wright wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 01:55:50PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 10:39 -0800, Pete Wright wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I have recently purchase this device and am interested in trying to get >>>> FreeBSD running on it: >>>> >>>> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models >>>> >>>> I currently have the system booting fine with the provided Debian image >>>> they ship with these system. At the end of this message is the output >>>> of dmesg from linux-land. >>>> >>>> Helpful documentation is also available here: >>>> http://utilite-computer.com/download/documentation//utilite/utilite-technical-reference-manual.pdf >>>> >>>> From what I can tell Utilite has done a good job at being open about >>>> their spec's and components. Hopefully this will help get it ported. I >>>> am personally excited about the dual Intel GBE NIC's on this system and >>>> would love to test this box out as an embedded router/firewall/nat device. >>>> >>>> Is there a good reference I can start from for this chipset? I am not >>>> %100 clear on which guide I should be following. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance! >>>> -pete >>>> >>>> >>>> <begin Linux dmesg> >>>> [snipped] >>>> >>> >>> I'm sorry it has taken me so long to reply to this. Until today my >>> reply would have had to been basically "freebsd will only kinda-sorta >>> run on that box," and every day I've been hoping to fix the >>> show-stopping bug and have something better to report. As of today >>> (r261410) the infamous wrong-endian bug is fixed and I think you won't >>> have too much trouble getting freebsd running on that unit. >>> >> no worries thanks for the reply! >> >> <snip> >> >> >>> To get started, you should probably start with the Wandboard dts files >>> and kernel config. One thing that jumps out at me is that the Utilite >>> uses uart ports 2 and 4, so to have a serial console for debugging >>> you'll need to change the dts source to enable uart2 and select it as >>> the console in the choosen {...} block. Unfortunately, because it's >>> Compulab, you'll probably have to buy their overpriced serial cable with >>> the weird connector on it (they do the same thing on the FitPc2). >>> >> >> thanks for the pointers! i was lucky enough to have them include the >> serial console cable with the box at no additional cost so no worries there. >> >> i did create an image using crochet-freebsd using the wanboard-quad >> config. it was failing trying to load uboot it looked like (no output >> on console) so i have some testing to do on that end (and bug reports >> too as well). >> >> i will re-build the images tonight to grab the latest patches as well as >> including the change for dts source as well. >> >> since the box already has uboot installed on it i was assuming i could >> just copy over the kernel image via nfs or tftp...so i will try that as >> well. >> >> cheers! >> -pete >> > > I haven't gotten ubldr to work yet, I'm going to look into that this > week. To net-load and launch the kernel directly, something like this > should work: > > tftp 12000000 172.22.42.240:/wand/boot/kernel/kernel > go 12000100 fantastic thanks for the pointer there. > > When rebuilding u-boot for the Utilite, some config may need to be > changed to use uart2 or 4 for the console. In theory, Compulab should > make the config and any other u-boot source changes available, since > it's GPL. for now i'm going to try to piggy-back on their uboot build so i can get the mechanics of building and running a freebsd kernel sorted out. once i get that done i am hoping to spend more cycles on the uboot stuff. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org twitter => @nomadlogicLA
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