DreamPlug support committed

Johan Henselmans johan at netsense.nl
Mon Jan 28 08:35:13 UTC 2013


On 27 jan. 2013, at 18:01, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> FYI, I've committed the last missing bits of support for the DreamPlug,
> so as of r245955 it's now possible to build for dreamplug without
> needing any extra patches, using stock kernel config DREAMPLUG-1001.  I
> also included the .dts file for the rare model 1001N (contains nand
> flash rather than nor flash).  The kernel config file has a little
> comment block at the end that says what to change to build for the 1001N
> model (of which there are probably only a few dozen in the wild).
> 
> As the name implies, the kernel and dts config files are for a model
> 1001 dreamplug, but I think the same config will work properly on an
> 0901 model as well, at least until we have wifi drivers for both.  (As I
> understand it, different wifi chips are the primary difference between
> the 0901 and 1001 models.)
> 
> There's a good chance this config would also work properly for a
> GuruPlug, or need only minor changes.  If anyone has a GuruPlug and
> wants to try it, I'd be happy to work without you to figure out if there
> are any changes needed and get them committed too.
> 
> -- Ian
> 

Thanks Ian. I compiled an earlier FreeBSD version for the dreamplug, that did not support the wireless chip on the dreamplug. 

According to Linux code that should be a Marvell 8787.

Do the current patches take care of the wireless driver?


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Johan Henselmans
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