Freecom FSG3 pc

Tue Oct 7 04:15:09 UTC 2008

I tried booting a kernel on the FSG3 once again.

The board will power from both 5V and 12V supply voltages, this is 
mostly to deal with driving a PATA drive.

The default Redboot config can be rewritten with fconfig -l, which is 
useful -- it expects to load a Linux zImage style kernel from the first 
partition, see here:
    http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FSG3/FisCmds

It is necessary to hold down the config reset button at the back to get 
Redboot to init the network ports. You need to CTRL-C it to stop it 
loading a recovery Linux kernel image.

Kernel config is mostly as per NSLU2, but with some twists.

There is an onboard Via VT6421A SATA/PATA controller, and an NEC EHCI 
controller, however neither of them appear to probe on the PCI bus. it 
looks like neither of them are activated by the firmware so they most 
likely need to have base addresses set up from scratch by the PCI code, 
something I believe we don't yet support?

It appears the PHY on board should be supported by the "rlswitch" driver.

I keep getting this even with full miibus compiled in:
%%%
npe0: <IXP NPE-B> on ixp0
npe0: [MPSAFE]
npe0: [ITHREAD]
npe0: using npe.0.mac=A override
npe0: using npe.0.mii=A override
npe0: remember to fix rx q setup
npe0: using npe.0.phy=5 override
npe0: Cannot find my PHY.
device_attach: npe0 attach returned 6
npe1: <IXP NPE-C> on ixp0
npe1: [MPSAFE]
npe1: [ITHREAD]
npe1: using npe.1.mac=B override
npe1: using npe.1.mii=A override
npe1: remember to fix rx q setup
npe1: using npe.1.phy=4 override
npe1: Cannot find my PHY.
device_attach: npe1 attach returned 6
%%%

I've tried forcing the PHY numbers to what's in a Linux dmesg (5 and 4 
respectively), hints look like this:
%%%
hint.npe.0.at="ixp0"
hint.npe.0.mac="A"
hint.npe.0.mii="A"
hint.npe.0.phy=5
hint.npe.1.at="ixp0"
hint.npe.1.mac="B"
hint.npe.1.mii="A"
hint.npe.1.phy=4
%%%

No joy, even if I switch the PHY numbers around.

Which datasheets am I going to have to look at? ...

I've attached a boot.log for the curious.

cheers
BMS

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 +Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:01:db:00:54:d0
IP: 192.168.123.150/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.123.1
Default server: 0.0.0.0, DNS server IP: 192.168.123.1

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]
Red Hat certified release, version 1.94 - built 11:47:48, Jun 10 2005

Platform: Freecom Storage  Gateway (FSG) (XScale) BE
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.

RAM: 0x00000000-0x04000000, 0x0001db58-0x03fd0000 available
FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x50400000, 32 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
FREECOM ermergency button pressed!
== Executing boot script in 5.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
^C
RedBoot> help load
Load a file
   load [-r] [-v] [-d] [-h <host>] [-m <varies>] [-c <channel_number>]
        [-b <base_address>] <file_name>
RedBoot> load -h 192.168.123.17 -v -b 0x200000 kernel
Using default protocol (TFTP)
Address offset = 0x40000000
Entry point: 0x00200100, address range: 0x00200000-0x00423518
RedBoot> go
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #9: Tue Oct  7 05:08:49 BST 2008
    root at anglepoise.lon.incunabulum.net:/home/obj/nanobsd.testusb/arm/home/bms/svn/head/sys/FSG3
Preloaded elf kernel "elf kernel" at 0xc043a2bc.
CPU: IXP425 266MHz rev 1 (ARMv5TE) (XScale core)
  DC enabled IC enabled WB enabled LABT branch prediction enabled
  32KB/32B 32-way Instruction cache
  32KB/32B 32-way write-back-locking Data cache
real memory  = 67108864 (64 MB)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x10544000 - 0x13ec5fff, 60301312 bytes (14722 pages)
avail memory = 59650048 (56 MB)
ULE: setup cpu 0
firmware: 'npe_fw' version 0: 35900 bytes loaded at 0xc0419b04
random: <entropy source, Software, Yarrow>
mem: <memory>
null: <null device, zero device>
ixp0: <Intel IXP425> on motherboard
pcib0: <IXP425 PCI Bus> on ixp0
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0
ixpclk0: <IXP425 Timer> on ixp0
ixpiic0: <IXP425 GPIO-Based I2C Interface> on ixp0
iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on ixpiic0
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
iic0: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus0
x1226rtc0: <Intersil/Xicor X1226 RTC> at addr 0x6f on iicbus0
x1226rtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock (resolution 1000us)
ixpwdog0: <IXP425 Watchdog Timer> on ixp0
uart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> on ixp0
uart0: [FILTER]
uart0: fast interrupt
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
uart1: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> on ixp0
uart1: [FILTER]
uart1: fast interrupt
ixpqmgr0: <IXP425 Q-Manager> on ixp0
ixpqmgr0: [MPSAFE]
ixpqmgr0: [ITHREAD]
ixpqmgr0: [MPSAFE]
ixpqmgr0: [ITHREAD]
npe0: <IXP NPE-B> on ixp0
npe0: [MPSAFE]
npe0: [ITHREAD]
npe0: using npe.0.mac=A override
npe0: using npe.0.mii=A override
npe0: remember to fix rx q setup
npe0: using npe.0.phy=4 override
npe0: Cannot find my PHY.
device_attach: npe0 attach returned 6
npe1: <IXP NPE-C> on ixp0
npe1: [MPSAFE]
npe1: [ITHREAD]
npe1: using npe.1.mac=B override
npe1: using npe.1.mii=A override
npe1: remember to fix rx q setup
npe1: using npe.1.phy=5 override
npe1: Cannot find my PHY.
device_attach: npe1 attach returned 6
ixpclk0: [FILTER]
Timecounter "IXP425 Timer" frequency 66666600 Hz quality 1000
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
lo0: bpf attached
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0a
  ?                  List valid disk boot devices
  <empty line>       Abort manual input

mountroot>