FreeBSD/arm support for Marvell chips -- please review

luasi dubay dubaylu at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 21:17:28 UTC 2008


On 10/14/08, Rafal Jaworowski <raj at semihalf.com> wrote:
> Vincent Barus wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > nice progress. Maybe someday there's a way to get a stripped down
>  > FreeBSD working on a d-link dns-323 (http://wiki.dns323.info/ ) ?
>  > It's a 88F5181 CPU.
And some now have a 88F5182. I am running NetBSD on mine. The
bootloader u-boot is stripped down and has no network access so be
prepared to download kernels using kermit. Something else to think
about if you want to turn it into a server, ...when it is power cycled
the DNS323 needs a kick to get it going again.
>
>
> The port is reported to work on 88F5181 (kevlo@ had his LinkstationPro
>  running), so the device you mention should only require some configuration
>  tweaks, if anything.
The gpio's need  reverse engineering too. The wiki does not provide
enough information to power off the device. I am working on this.


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