Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:53 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, lists@walkertc.com Subject: Re: Avila Network Platform: GW2348-4, GW2348-2, GW2347 Message-ID: <86262BDC-5FAE-40CD-984D-881611AD75A9@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100511115123.f3fa00d4.ray@dlink.ua> References: <000a01cae603$37c777b0$a7566710$@com> <x2q6c36ec371004270525of0cca4f6q48615d6e92ad232@mail.gmail.com> <53D78536-B33F-42D3-A58E-364CEC996366@errno.com> <C26AFEB3-7A56-47EC-98EB-D71F01F19745@FreeBSD.org> <20100511115123.f3fa00d4.ray@dlink.ua>
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On 11 May 2010, at 09:51, Alexandr Rybalko wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:16:19 +0100 > Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 >>> On 10 May 2010, at 19:55, Sam Leffler wrote: >>>=20 >>>> On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:25 AM, batcilla itself wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> Support of Avila GW2348-4 uses CF for a kernel and rootfs, >>>>> GW2347 does not have CF. Regarding of GW2348-2 - if it can have CF >>>>> option enabled - it may work out of box or almost with nanobsd. >>>>> May be will require minor tuning of GPIO setup to mPCI and PHY >>>>> connecting to NPE. >>>>> I think for now, when board is EOL, - is no sense to add support = for >>>>> Avila eeprom auto-configuration mode. >>>>> But generally if you pack anything into kernel it may even work = with >>>>> GW2347 (there is 8 flash, 32MB RAM only). >>>>>=20 >>>>> //batcilla >>>>>=20 >>>>>=20 >>>>> 2010/4/27 <lists@walkertc.com>: >>>>>> The Avila GW2348-4 is supported according to the FreeBSD/ARM = Project Page. >>>>>>=20 >>>>>> Does anyone know if FreeBSD would work on similar Avila products = such as the >>>>>> GW2348-2 or the GW2347? Has anyone tried this? >>>>=20 >>>> I believe the flash support works but never actually stuck a rootfs = in the flash and tested. Not sure how work is needed to >>>> automate this config w/ nanobsd. >>>=20 >>> I did that once and it worked fine but my flash is really low (8MB), = so I used a kernel + libc + ifconfig + sh. >=20 > You may try to use my work geom_map (split flash by slices, like = geom_redboot, but via hints) and geom_ulzma (based on > geom_uzip, but compress blocks with lzma). > Now it work on device with 4M of flash and run IPSec. >=20 > Previously I test this modules on ARM MV88F5182 board (D-Link DNS-323)=20= >=20 > Some info here http://wiki.ddteam.net/wiki.cgi?page=3DDIR%2D320+FreeBSD > Mercurial repo here http://my.ddteam.net/hg/BASE/ Thanks for mentioning it. At the time your work was not available, but = I'll try to find time to test it. Regards, -- Rui Paulo
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