At91rm9200 how to start with FreeBSD

[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:37, you wrote:
> In message: <200611211817.23949.Danovitsch at vitsch.net>
>
>             "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch at vitsch.net> writes:
> : Apart from that I have another problem with this KB9202B board. I use the
> : original boot loader that was provided by Kwikbyte and load the kernel
> : using TFTP. I would really like to keep using TFTP for it's speed, but
> : for some reason not all kernels I have created are bootable...
> : I suspect this to be a problem in the boot loader. When I change the
> : configuration of my kernel (add a device, or remove one) all of a sudden
> : the kernel won't boot. The boot loader doesn't complain during the
> : TFTP-transfer, but after typing "e 0x20000000" to execute, the board
> : hangs without a single letter being output on the serial console.
> : Has anyone else seen this problem?
> : Is there a way to fix the TFTP problems I am seeing?
> : (Or did I really mess up with compiling?)
>
> kwikbyte's tftp boot code sucks.  I fixed a lot of bugs with it and
> you can find the results in bootiic :-)  In fact, I started with
> kwikbyte's boot loader and have made the original one fit in about ~5k
> instead of 16k.  I've also added some functionality to it and it takes
> up 8k or so.
>
> Warner

Changing the boot loader indeed solved the problems I was seeing. It's also 
nice to have a progress indicator while downloading and to actually see 
errors when things go wrong :)

Thanks,
Daan