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

[Alexandr Rybalko]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:16:19 +0100
Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>> 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.

You may try to use my work geom_map (split flash by slices, like geom_redboot, but via hints) and geom_ulzma (based on
geom_uzip, but compress blocks with lzma).
Now it work on device with 4M of flash and run IPSec.

Previously I test this modules on ARM MV88F5182 board (D-Link DNS-323) 

Some info here http://wiki.ddteam.net/wiki.cgi?page=DIR%2D320+FreeBSD
Mercurial repo here http://my.ddteam.net/hg/BASE/

>> 
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Rui Paulo
>> 
>> 
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Alexandr Rybalko <ray at dlink.ua> 
aka Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net>