TS-7200 Support

[John-Mark Gurney]

Patrick Collins wrote this message on Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 17:57 +1000:
> Would someone please give me an update on where we are with FreeBSD
> support for the TS-7200. I own one of these things and would like to
> run my favourite operating system on it for a project I have been
> thinking about for some time. If you think it should work then a
> pointer to a kernel configuration file would be of great benefit. This
> is not a one off hobby type activity but hopefully a real project that
> would see quite a number of these things in an embedded system.
> 
> I know Linux is quite well supported on this device but I really don't
> want to go this way if I can avoid it.

I had it netbooting and getting to multiuser mode with decent device
support, though no RTC iirc...  The problem I had was that I discovered
an ethernet frame (that may be specific to my network) that would never
be transmitted...  I talked to TS and tried to file a support request
w/ Cirrus Logic on the issue, but got no where trying to figure out why
a DNS packet wouldn't transmit... I could boot multiuser over nfs after
aborting sendmail's DNS query...

see: http://people.freebsd.org/~jmg/dmesg.ts7200

Though it hasn't been integrated w/ the recent work that's happened on
arm in the last couple years...

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