Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:06:13 +0100 From: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> To: Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First RSPRO deployed ! Message-ID: <AANLkTi=58UpFdeGybZqeA0eTugq-B6ebPQ7McPET1QMc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201011191201.47230.freebsd-mips@dino.sk> References: <D74327E9-0A8A-4B46-B4DD-16D0FAF8E3BB@gmail.com> <CBBB7D88-210F-4706-A8FD-83FDA7EBA914@gmail.com> <AANLkTimAWM2UszxUsbnPkt0hra2pj0RqmbqhYMm7eCPv@mail.gmail.com> <201011191201.47230.freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk> wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2010 13:43:51 Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: >> OMG, thank you Luiz for the file.... Adrian forgot to mention that you >> need to add kern_memstart field to the fw_layout_data structure!!! >> >> Its works...so I guess to boot from flash we need to play with the >> flash driver and ffs... thats a totally different story though :P >> > > Well, with mkfwimage it is possible to write FreeBSD into flash on RSPRO and > boot from it. I just verified this. Using it the way it's used in mkflash > script has one drawback, I think - your setup is static and you are not using > whole flash to its best potential as well. Actually, with patches you are able > to read flash (verified) and probably write to it, too, so the 'only' > remaining part is ffs tuned to use it... mm, as I understood it it should be easy for ffs2 to work, just need to fix some macros so that the code that probes for the superblock work... reading/writting to flash with correct sectorsize is no problem.... > > Regards, > Milan > -- //Monthadar Al Jaberi
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