Avila Network Platform: GW2348-4, GW2348-2, GW2347

[Rui Paulo]

On 10 May 2010, at 19:55, Sam Leffler wrote:

> On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:25 AM, batcilla itself wrote:
> 
>> Support of Avila GW2348-4 uses CF for a kernel and rootfs,
>> GW2347 does not have CF. Regarding of GW2348-2 - if it can have CF
>> option enabled - it may work out of box or almost with nanobsd.
>> May be will require minor tuning of GPIO setup to mPCI and PHY
>> connecting to NPE.
>> I think for now, when board is EOL, - is no sense to add support for
>> Avila eeprom auto-configuration mode.
>> But generally if you pack anything into kernel it may even work with
>> GW2347 (there is 8 flash, 32MB RAM only).
>> 
>> //batcilla
>> 
>> 
>> 2010/4/27  <lists at walkertc.com>:
>>> The Avila GW2348-4 is supported according to the FreeBSD/ARM Project Page.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know if FreeBSD would work on similar Avila products such as the
>>> GW2348-2 or the GW2347?  Has anyone tried this?
> 
> I believe the flash support works but never actually stuck a rootfs in the flash and tested.  Not sure how work is needed to automate this config w/ nanobsd.

I did that once and it worked fine but my flash is really low (8MB), so I used a kernel + libc + ifconfig + sh.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo