Routerboard RB800

[Luiz Otavio O Souza]

On 22 September 2013 22:18, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 21 September 2013 11:40, Benjamin Perrault <ben.perrault at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To the freebsd embedded team,
> >
> > I have at least 1 - probably 2  RB800s available to contribute to get it supported by FreeBSD if someone is SERIOUS about putting in the effort. I noticed it's on the embedded want list on the wiki - so that's a start - and it's a nice platform that  could use from a proper OS ( not awful proprietary RouterOS or a linux flavor ). While netbsd has support for it, it's not something I use regularly. Additionally, work/a port on this - it will probably work on the MikroTik RB1100 and RB1100ah ( at least from looking at netbsd/linux code & mailing lists I've looked at ) and possibly a few more MPC8544 based boards - so there is additional merit beyond just this I think.
> >
> > While I would love to attempt this port myself - I fear I lack the apptitude ( and don't want to spew out some nasty hack ). So extending the offer of hardware is what I can contribute. The boards are located in San Francisco, but i can ship to most places without to much problem ( though anyone local I'll treat to a few pints as well for the endeavor - pre, during and post ).
> >
> > So if anyone is SERIOUSLY interested in the FreeBSD development team ( I don't like to see hardware go to waste ) - please let me know / contact me. I would love to see proper BSD on this platform.
>
>
> Attached are changed I used around 12 months ago to get it to boot
> from a nfs root, not sure if they still apply correctly. I spent a
> huge amount of time discovering that the dts file needed a chosen{}
> section to get the uart selected/working :)
>
> The main issue with the RB800 is the flash chip is behind a
> programmable logic chip and Mikrotik won't release the details for it.
> Netbsd can only netboot too (last time I checked).
>

And just for the record, i managed to netboot RB1000 a while ago with
Andrew's patches and a few changes. No CF/NAND/Flash support either.

dmesg: http://pastebin.com/MtndmEes
uptime/uname/ifconfig/pkg_info: http://pastebin.com/4uBX0fac
MPC85XX kernel diff: http://pastebin.com/mvFa7SHd

Luiz
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