From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Nov 2 11:06:51 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Nov 2 11:07:43 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200911021106.nA2B6pqf033546@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From boneandfat at gmail.com Mon Nov 2 13:07:24 2009 From: boneandfat at gmail.com (Gaoz) Date: Mon Nov 2 13:07:29 2009 Subject: How can I choose the second slice of nanobsd to boot? Message-ID: <95139c170911020507k5bd95b4as5f38b0d57a539cad@mail.gmail.com> Hi. I have written the nanobsd image to one CF card, then it is inserted to my pc. But when I power on the pc, I can not choose the second slice. thanks for some advice. gaozheng From info at rickvanderzwet.nl Mon Nov 2 18:33:49 2009 From: info at rickvanderzwet.nl (Rick van der Zwet) Date: Mon Nov 2 18:33:55 2009 Subject: How can I choose the second slice of nanobsd to boot? In-Reply-To: <95139c170911020507k5bd95b4as5f38b0d57a539cad@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170911020507k5bd95b4as5f38b0d57a539cad@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5aaae08a0911021033t79275bc8ga4db25f76799477b@mail.gmail.com> 2009/11/2 Gaoz : > I have written the nanobsd image to one CF card, then it is inserted to my > pc. Could you provide any technical specs regarding the PC you are using and the size of CF card you are using? > But when I power on the pc, I can not choose the second slice. > thanks for some advice. Could you elaborate a bit more on the errors/display? Like what do you see, what are trying for specs. How dat the error look like? Best, /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl From sven at hazejager.nl Fri Nov 6 20:33:04 2009 From: sven at hazejager.nl (Sven Hazejager) Date: Fri Nov 6 20:33:36 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix Message-ID: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> All, I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on the next line but then everything stops. The loader prompt allows me to do an "ls" and I can see the files on the first slice just fine. This happens both with GENERIC and with my own kernel. GENERIC and my own kernel boot fine over PXE. Things I already tried: - Using both CHS and LBA geometry of the CF card as reported by Alix tinybios in nanoBSD - Set tinybios both to CHS and LBA mode - Changed nanoBSD boot0config to include "-o nopacket" Possibly I have NOT tested all combinations of above options to be honest, but I'm not sure if the problem lies with geometry or not...? At the very least I'm staring myself blind :-) By the way, the nanoBSD disk image works fine (with heads=16 and sectors=63) in VMware (in that case I do not call the cust_comconsole function in nanoBSD)! Cheers, Sven From mike at sentex.net Fri Nov 6 20:38:50 2009 From: mike at sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Date: Fri Nov 6 20:38:56 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.co m> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200911062038.nA6KcmPZ088744@lava.sentex.ca> At 03:00 PM 11/6/2009, Sven Hazejager wrote: >All, > >I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an >Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get >into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I >see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on >the next line but then everything stops. Hi, For my Alix boxes I use NANO_BOOT0CFG="-o nopacket -s 1 -m 3 -t 36" For my kernel, I generally get rid of options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering to avoid issues of ad0 vs ad1 as it seems to vary from CF to CF manufacturer. Otherwise I have to fiddle with NANO_DRIVE=ad0 ---Mike >The loader prompt allows me to do an "ls" and I can see the files on >the first slice just fine. > >This happens both with GENERIC and with my own kernel. GENERIC and my >own kernel boot fine over PXE. > >Things I already tried: > >- Using both CHS and LBA geometry of the CF card as reported by Alix >tinybios in nanoBSD >- Set tinybios both to CHS and LBA mode >- Changed nanoBSD boot0config to include "-o nopacket" > >Possibly I have NOT tested all combinations of above options to be >honest, but I'm not sure if the problem lies with geometry or not...? >At the very least I'm staring myself blind :-) > >By the way, the nanoBSD disk image works fine (with heads=16 and >sectors=63) in VMware (in that case I do not call the cust_comconsole >function in nanoBSD)! > >Cheers, > >Sven >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-embedded >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-embedded-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike From ast at marabu.ch Sat Nov 7 13:16:12 2009 From: ast at marabu.ch (Adrian Steinmann) Date: Sat Nov 7 13:16:19 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091107124411.GA5551@webgroup.ch> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:00:08PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an > Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get > into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I > see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on > the next line but then everything stops. Are you sure you have hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf ? The ALIX and WRAP systems don't have an atkbd so booting stalls when probing for them. Adrian From sven at hazejager.nl Sat Nov 7 15:57:59 2009 From: sven at hazejager.nl (Sven Hazejager) Date: Sat Nov 7 15:58:06 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix In-Reply-To: <20091107124411.GA5551@webgroup.ch> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> <20091107124411.GA5551@webgroup.ch> Message-ID: <8ffccde70911070757y73b0b6f8m883394672199b5bc@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:00:08PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an > Alix serial-only system. Thanks Mike and Adrian for their suggestions, but no luck yet. I do not have atkbd or atkbdc in my kernel. Remember: this kernel boots fine over PXE :-/ This is the output that I see after going into the loader and typing "lsdev", "show" and finally "boot". The jibberish halfway is boot0 that runs at 9600 baud. I also see a "bad bsdlabel" for the cfg slice when I run this image in a VM; it doesn't seem to be a problem there. Any suggestions? I will keep trying all the "-o nopacket" vs. CHS/LBA in tinybios vs. 16/63 or 32/63 heads/sectors set in nanoBSD combinations... But the kernel loads fine!! PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h 640 KB Base Memory 261120 KB Extended Memory 01F0 Master 848A SAMSUNG CF/ATA Phys C/H/S 2025/16/63 Log C/H/S 1012/32/63 Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel Corporation VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43 (2005/12/15) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????I?????? BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 640kB/261120kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@aldebaran.chain.loc, Sat Nov 7 16:58:22 CET 2009) > \ \: unknown command - /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x3824a0 data=0x42760+0x2a29c syms=[0x4+0x42700+0x4+0x567d4] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 5 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive C: disk0s1a: FFS disk0s3: FFS bad disklabel pxe devices: OK show LINES=24 boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=57600 console=comconsole currdev=disk0s1a: interpret=OK kernelname=/boot/kernel/kernel loaddev=disk0s1a: prompt=${interpret} OK boot \ <-- STUCK! From sven at hazejager.nl Sat Nov 7 16:38:27 2009 From: sven at hazejager.nl (Sven Hazejager) Date: Sat Nov 7 16:38:42 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911070757y73b0b6f8m883394672199b5bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> <20091107124411.GA5551@webgroup.ch> <8ffccde70911070757y73b0b6f8m883394672199b5bc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8ffccde70911070838v5605a55jd63657ac1254d974@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:57, Sven Hazejager wrote: > OK show > LINES=24 > boot_serial=YES > comconsole_speed=57600 > console=comconsole > currdev=disk0s1a: > interpret=OK > kernelname=/boot/kernel/kernel > loaddev=disk0s1a: > prompt=${interpret} > OK boot > \ <-- STUCK! I am now booting the EXACT same kernel in VMware (so actually have a null-modem set up to another laptop to get into the loader), and get this: boot0 and the loader display on the serial console.. but the kernel starts on the VGA console (VMware)! Even though I have "-h" in boot.config and console=comconsole, as depicted above! Maybe this is happening on the ALIX too and it actually boots but never displays anything. Does anyone know how that might be happening? Marten: your image boots fine! Kernel boots up etc. Nice to see FreeBSD 8.0 in action ;-) Sven From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Nov 9 11:06:49 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Nov 9 11:07:42 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200911091106.nA9B6nJg078948@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From karoslu at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 08:18:01 2009 From: karoslu at gmail.com (=?Big5?B?p2arVL3l?=) Date: Mon Nov 9 12:44:03 2009 Subject: 2nd CFP: IJES - Special Issue on: Reconfigurable and Multicore Embedded Message-ID: <4baea8fa0911082350q7d95a973h87e026a10c44e1f3@mail.gmail.com> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies] ============================= Call for Papers ============================ International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) Special Issue on Reconfigurable and Multicore Embedded Systems http://embedded.cs.ccu.edu.tw/WoRMES_IJES ===================================================================== General Information =================== With the progress and popularization of embedded system in the past few years, efficiency, instead of functionalities has become an important factor in measuring the value of embedded system. How to efficiently use the limited resources in an embedded system to obtain optimal performance has also become a very important issue. Reconfigurable and multi-core architectures are promising solutions to this issue. Compared to conventional hardware which fixed functionalities, reconfigurable hardware has better flexibility in using the limited resources in an embedded system. For the same amount of computing resources, conventional hardware can provide a single set of functionalities only. However, reconfigurable hardware can reuse the same resources to provide multiple sets of functionalities at different time points. Developers of embedded systems can also use the reconfigurable technology to satisfy system requirements such as small area, high performance, and low power consumption. The reconfiguration technology is especially suitable for implementing run-time systems such as wireless sensor applications. In the conventional single -core architecture, all loads of computation burdened the only core and the performance is limited to a critical point. This limitation is solved by the multi-core architecture. In the multi-core architecture, all of the cores can share the loads to achieve load balancing and improve the performance substantially by exploring the parallelism of computations. Since adopting both reconfigurability and multi-core architectures can achieve high performance, how to integrate these two technologies to achieve much higher performance is an attractive research issue. The contribution of this special issue is to encourage researchers to publish their experiences in reconfigurable computing technologies, multi-core embedded systems, and the integration of the two research areas. This special issue follows the 2009 WoRMES workshop on the same topic, but is open also to contributions that were not presented in it. Topics include but are not limited to? * Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures * Runtime Resource Management of Reconfigurable Hardware * Operating Systems for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems * Application Design for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems * Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Techniques * Programming Models for Reconfigurable Systems * Multi-core Operating Systems and Scheduling * Hardware Designs for Multi-core Architectures * Multi-core Application Design * Programming Models for Embedded Multi-core Architectures * Reconfigurable Multi-core Architecture Design * Reconfigurable Multi-core SoC Implementation Submission Information ====================== Prepare the paper with either MS-Word or LaTeX. The paper should be submitted in the PDF format. Please refer the webpage: http://embedded.cs.ccu.edu.tw/WoRMES_IJES/Submission.htm for the detailed format of submitted paper. To submit a paper, please send one copy attached to an e-mail with the title "[IJES-SIoRMES] paper submission" to the guest editors or e-mail your file to: wormes_ijes@embedded.cs.ccu.edu.tw Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: November 20th, 2009 Authors Notification: December 31st, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: January 21st, 2010 Expected publication date: March, 2010 Guest Editors for the IJES Special Issue on Reconfigurable and Multicore Embedded Systems ===================================================================== Dr. Pao-Ann Hsiung Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chung Cheng University 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung, Chiayi, Taiwan-62102, ROC. e-mail: pahsiung@cs.ccu.edu.tw web: http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~pahsiung/ Chun-Hsien Lu Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chung Cheng University 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung, Chiayi, Taiwan-62102, ROC. e-mail: lch96p@cs.ccu.edu.tw web: http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~lchs91u/lchs91u.htm From sven at hazejager.nl Wed Nov 11 08:15:07 2009 From: sven at hazejager.nl (Sven Hazejager) Date: Wed Nov 11 08:15:13 2009 Subject: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8ffccde70911110015q67d85c8fhfc420cbde07443@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 21:00, Sven Hazejager wrote: > I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an > Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get > into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I > see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on > the next line but then everything stops. PROBLEM SOLVED! In an attempt to minimize FreeBSD for nanoBSD I had WITHOUT_FORTH=true in my /etc/src.conf. That apparently breaks the passing of boot flags to the kernel, which causes the kernel to use the VGA output even though boot.config has "-h" and console=comconsole in the loader. On the ALIX, that resulted in a "silent" kernel because it has no VGA. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Sven From dgaur at cdotd.ernet.in Thu Nov 12 09:32:37 2009 From: dgaur at cdotd.ernet.in (Deepak Gaur) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:32:44 2009 Subject: VSC7323 - spi4 -driver Message-ID: <20091112091714.M78970@cdotd.ernet.in> Hello Refer your March 12 query on Freebsd forum regarding VSC7323 Chip driver for BSD " I am working on a mips based board with VSC7323 MAC chip on a spi4 interface. I cannot find the driver for this in freeBSD. I have the driver in linux and it comes up with that. Please help. " for BSD driver is in following path release by chelsio communication ftp://ftp.tw.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/sys/dev/pci/ files cxgb_vsc7323.c cxgb_common.h cxgb_t3_hw.c cxgb_xgmac.c In your query you have mentioned that a linux driver is available for this chip. I need a linux based Driver for this Chip but couldn't find it in standard kernel I shall be grateful if you pls mail be that driver(linux) Deepak Gaur From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Nov 16 11:06:50 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Nov 16 11:07:44 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200911161106.nAGB6n4x011121@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From lihong at ieee.org Wed Nov 18 04:31:09 2009 From: lihong at ieee.org (Eric L. Chen) Date: Wed Nov 18 04:31:16 2009 Subject: FreeBSD AP for IXP425 board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2270dfc20911172006g6dcd2808j8f7de20197051a1f@mail.gmail.com> 2009/11/18 Padgitt, Dave > > Eric, > > I'm dabbling with FreeBSD, noticed your post to the freebsd-embedded mailing list and am interested in seeing the script you made to create a FreeBSD AP for an IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU),? Please e-mail me the script.? Also, which version of FreeBSD did you use?? Thanks in advance for your script. > Please download it from http://bit.ly/AJ7DY -- Regards, Eric L. Chen From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Nov 23 11:06:51 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Nov 23 11:07:43 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200911231106.nANB6oB2070082@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total.