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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:27:41 +0100
From:      Roman Le Houelleur <roman@IPricot.com>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel IXDP425 eval board
Message-ID:  <45B08F0D.70803@IPricot.com>
In-Reply-To: <45ADEB85.1030709@IPricot.com>
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Ok, the second serial port in useful indeed ...
Here is its ouput after typing "go" (on the primary one):

Kuart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> on ixp0
uart0: [FAST]
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
ixpqmgr0: <IXP425 Q-Manager> on ixp0
npe0: <IXP NPE-B> on ixp0
device_attach: npe0 attach returned 5
npe1: <IXP NPE-C> on ixp0
device_attach: npe1 attach returned 5
ata_avila0: <Gateworks Avila IDE/CF Controller> on ixp0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on ata_avila0
led_avila0: <Gateworks Avila GPIO connected LED> on ixp0
ixpclk0: [FAST]
Timecounter "IXP425 Timer" frequency 66666600 Hz quality 1000
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
bootpc_init: wired to interface 'npe0'
panic: bootpc_init: Could not find interface specified by 
BOOTP_WIRED_TO: npe0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x3c: ldrb    r15, [r15, r15, ror r15]!
db>

The qmgr option is already in the AVILA kernel config, I am
not sure what you meant Sam ... Shall I use another version
of the IAL ?

Well, at least I now have something that looks like a
FreeBSD kernel starting to boot :-)

Thanks,
Roman.

Roman Le Houelleur wrote:
> Thank you all for your answers,
> 
> It seems the explanation is just hereunder, I hope to
> find some time to give it a try today. I will also
> check the UARTS btw, it does have two ports indeed.
> 
> I do not know if A* boards are common, the one I have
> is quite old I think, so I guess no.
> I actually need to evaluate the performance of the IXP42*
> plateform. If I run in too much trouble with this old board
> I might well go for an avila. We (you) probably don't want
> to spend much time on this particular one.
> 
> I will get back to you asap with the results.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Roman Le Houelleur wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> First of all, congratulation for the work being done porting
>>> FreeBSD to the IXP425 !
>>>
>>> I have an IXDP425 eval board rev A3 from Intel on which I
>>> tried the AVILA procedure as is, just in case, strictly
>>> following information from:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/README-gateworks
>>
>> My IAL replacement code does not support A3 revs.  To fix that you need
>> to add to the qmgr support as the A3 hardware does not have certain
>> functionality the current code assumes.
>>
>> I assumed A* boards would be rare; am I wrong?
>>
>>> Unfortunatly it will not "go", but just freeze:
>>> RedBoot> reset
>>> ... Resetting.
>>> +in bist
>>> out bist
>>> begin @ 0x00008f60 ; end @ 0x00008f70
>>> (0) init_entry = 0x00008f60 ; fun @ 0x50005ef8
>>> (1) init_entry = 0x00008f64 ; fun @ 0x50017ef0
>>> (2) init_entry = 0x00008f68 ; fun @ 0x500071d4
>>> (3) init_entry = 0x00008f6c ; fun @ 0x5001f534
>>> nfe : regval[0] = 0x0013
>>> Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:00:83:28:50:22
>>> IP: 172.16.0.44, Default server: 172.16.0.50
>>>
>>> RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]
>>>  release, version 1.92p1 - built 17:24:25, Jul 19 2004
>>>
>>> Platform: IXP425 ANTA (XScale)
>>> Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.
>>>
>>> RAM: 0x00000000-0x08000000, 0x0001c068-0x07fd1000 available
>>> FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x51000000, 128 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
>>> RedBoot> ip -h 192.168.31.182 -l 192.168.31.90
>>> IP: 192.168.31.90, Default server: 192.168.31.182
>>> RedBoot> load -b 0x200000 kernel-avila.nfs
>>> Using default protocol (TFTP)
>>> Address offset = 0x40000000
>>> Entry point: 0x00200100, address range: 0x00200000-0x006c9aa8
>>> RedBoot> go
>>>
>>> Does anyone have experience with this board ? Does it
>>> have any chance to work w/ the AVILA kernel config, or
>>> is this one too specific ?
>>>
>>> I am using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Dec 14 16:10:30 UTC 2006
>>
>> It should definitely get further than that but I wouldn't expect the npe
>> support to work right.  Try enabling bootverbose by patching the code
>> (since we don't have proper bootstrap support yet to pass that in from
>> redboot).
>>
>>     Sam
> 

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