Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:44:18 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cavium Econa CNS21XX Message-ID: <201007061944.18197.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimg4E2oa4MuKF_mUlHRj-Uf76eKSD5yBbtH2bOw@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimg4E2oa4MuKF_mUlHRj-Uf76eKSD5yBbtH2bOw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 06 July 2010 18:12:21 Yohanes Nugroho wrote: > About six months ago, Stefan Bethke donated me some money to buy a > device from dealextreme so I can port FreeBSD to that device > (http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.20383). The device uses Cavium > Econa CNS21XX, a bit different from my previous port (CNS11XX). And I > finally have the time to finish the last part of the port (SPI flash). > > So the last status is I can write FreeBSD kernel to the SPI flash, and > it can be loaded by the boot loader (so I don't need serial port > anymore to load the kernel), then I can boot to multiuser mode with > networking (using USB disk as the root device). Networking speed is > just a little bit slower compared to Linux (about 3.5 mb/s compared to > around 4mb/s in Linux), For information: the device has 250 Mhz ARM > FA526 CPU with 32 Mb RAM. > > I haven't clean up the code yet to be included in SVN, but anyone who > want to try can get the source from http://gitorious.org/freebsd-arm > > I made a post on how to write the kernel to the SPI flash at my blog: > http://tinyhack.com/2010/07/06/cns21xx-port-completed/ > > I will send the patch for review to this list after I clean up the code. The OHCI USB interface file looks OK. --HPS
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