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

[Rui Paulo]

On 11 May 2010, at 09:51, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:

> 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/

Thanks for mentioning it. At the time your work was not available, but I'll try to find time to test it.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo