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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:22:17 +0800
From:      Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@gmail.com>, "Andrew N. Balahonov" <balahonov@rikor.com>
Cc:        Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ARM & Armada XP support.
Message-ID:  <524942C9.2090101@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGtf9xMxG-5iHSGWPpHJuLOt3uGAnHTBiHCjKDT8vbMvamxBfg@mail.gmail.com>
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Ganbold Tsagaankhuu wrote:
> Andrew,
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Andrew N. Balahonov <balahonov@rikor.com>wrote:
>
>> hi Ganbold,
>>
>> I've went to https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm and got
>>
>> Boards that are supported or currently in the works:
>> ...
>>      Marvell DB-78460 (ARMv7)
>> ...
>>
>> I have Armada XP hardware and interested in
>> installing FreeBSD on it.
>>
>> Please review u-boot "listing_1" below for detailed
>> information about soc/board.
>>
>> In accordance to https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell
>> this SoC is not supported. Can you confirm (or contradict) it?
>>
>
> I'm not sure about this SoC, but I think people like zbb@ who are
> subscribed to freebsd-arm@ like has more knowledge about it.
> IIRC, zbb@ has some Armada XP hardware.
>
> best regards,
>
> Ganbold
>
>
>
>> Anyway, I've builded kernel with
>> make buildkernel TARGET_ARCH=arm KERNCONF=DB-MV78XXX
>> and copyed /usr/obj/arm.arm/usr/src/sys/DB-78XXX/kernel.bin
>> to the TFTP server.
>>
>> RiKOR>> setenv serverip 10.10.0.56; setenv ipaddr 10.10.0.57;
>> RiKOR>> setenv ethaddr 00:50:43:02:02:d7; tftpboot 0x2000000
>> RiKOR>> 10.10.0.56:/kernel.bin
>> Using egiga0 device
>> TFTP from server 10.10.0.56; our IP address is 10.10.0.57
>> Filename '/kernel.bin'.
>> Load address: 0x2000000
>> Loading:
>> #################################################################
>> #################################################################
>> #################################################################
>> ######################################### done
>> Bytes transferred = 3452408 (34adf8 hex)
>> RiKOR>> go 2000000
>> ## Starting application at 0x02000000 ...
>> <--it hangs here.
>>
>>
>> It is possible to introduce support of this hardware by FreeBSD?
>>
>> How can we help you (FreeBSD team) to bring FreeBSD to this hardware?
>>
>> As a last chance it is possible to discuss how to ship this hardware to
>> your technical specialists.
>>
>> Also, I'm able to reroute you technical questions directly to Marvell.

The load address is 0xf00000, not 0x02000000.

>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew.

     Kevin



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