SheevaPlug

[Balanga Bar]

I'm not sure what a Dockstar is. Does it use a SATA connector?

If I could boot from a hard disk, I'd be happy with 8.x.

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:57 PM Jan Bramkamp <crest at rlwinm.de> wrote:

> I did run FreeBSD 8.x on a DockStar based on the same Kirkwood SoC. Back
> than ARM Support was a lot less mature and anything file system related
> was painfully slow, because of the damn VIVT caches that required
> special flags when mounting UFS to avoid running into aliassing
> problems. When some "smart" userland code e.g. the perl5.8 build ran
> into similar caching problem the kernel had to disable all caching for
> the aliased memory mappings. This increased the perl5.8.9 build time to
>  >25 hours.
>
> On 29.05.19 09:40, Balanga Bar wrote:
> > The reasons I'm investing so much time and effort are:-
> >
> > it's an opportunity to learn a new technology ie FreeBSD/ARM
> >
> > discover something about building kernels
> >
> > finish a long term project of replacing the stock Linux on my GoFlex Home
> > with FreeBSD
> >
> > It is not clear to me if anyone has ever managed to run FreeBSD on one of
> > these units. I have reached the point where it runs OK but only when
> > booting from USB. If I manage to get it to recognise the hard disk I'll
> be
> > more than happy and am not really concerned about what may happen after
> > freebsd 13.
> >
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 15:24 +0100, Balanga Bar wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the links. I notice that the HowTo page is nine years old
> and
> >>> wonder if anything needs updating...
> >>>
> >>> I did notice that the SHEEVAPLUG kernel configuration file in the HowTo
> >>> page is truncated. Any idea what's missing?
> >>>
> >>> As for the SD Card reader support, has that ever existed? In the Wiki
> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug it says it had FreeBSD
> >> support, so
> >>> would assume a Card must have need available at one time..
> >>>
> >>> I'm particularly interested in the GOFLEX HOME unit and would love to
> >> find
> >>> a config file which lets me use a hard disk. I have it booting from a
> USB
> >>> stick but have hit a brick wall providing hard disk access. I guess
> I'll
> >>> put the GFH on the back burner and concentrate on the SheevaPlug.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> It is astounding to me that you're investing so much effort into
> >> hardware that doesn't really work properly with freebsd (as you're
> >> discovering), isn't really supported by the project (as you're
> >> discovering), and for those reasons, is unlikely to be included at all
> >> after freebsd 13 (like, the code will probably be removed).
> >>
> >> -- Ian
> >>
> >>
> >>
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