From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Dec 10 21:10:11 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F3B4B67B4 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:10:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from mail.lariat.net (mail.lariat.net [66.62.230.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CsRQB4r5Qz3Fqh for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from Toshi.lariat.net (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28280 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:10:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <202012102110.OAA28280@mail.lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:07:01 -0700 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Build for Intel iXP420 board? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CsRQB4r5Qz3Fqh X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of brett@lariat.net designates 66.62.230.51 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=brett@lariat.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.38 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[66.62.230.51:from]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[66.62.230.51:from:127.0.2.255]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[lariat.net]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.92)[-0.916]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19092, ipnet:66.62.228.0/22, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:10:11 -0000 Hello! I recently disassembled some radio equipment which the FCC will no longer to allow me to use (they auctioned the frequencies that it used to run on out from under me and other wireless ISPs) and discovered some ARM boards inside that I would like to reuse for other embedded applications. They are "Avila" boards, made by Gateworks, and appear to follow the Intel evaluation/reference board design for the iXP420. A couple of them have only 4 MB of available flash, but some have 8 MB. I've found an old port for these boards; it's described at https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/gateworks/gateworks_avilagw2348-2 and seems to boot. But OpenWRT is weird and awkward, and worst of all, it's Linux! I would prefer to be running one of the BSDs on these. I've discovered that the boot ROM is Redboot, which means that I can TFTP and flash a properly formatted image if one exists. Is there an ARM build of FreeBSD that's likely to work on this style of board? --Brett Glass