First RSPRO deployed !

[Milan Obuch]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 12:14:30 you wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 November 2010 13:21:55 Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >> 
> >> This is just a FYI about my first RSPRO deployed and my satisfaction
> >> with it :)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> I'm running a slightly modified version of current (for the RTC support
> >> and basic multi-phy/switch support - still without vlan support).
> > 
> > Could you share your changes/patches? I have this board too and could
> > benefit from it too... you did a bit more already than me...
> 
> Hi Milan,
> 
> Sure, all my patches/changes are available, but as i said, it's only small
> changes...
> 

I am testing everything available...

> >> Here is the dmesg: http://pastebin.com/BGsAun6b
> >> 
> >> The ifconfig: http://pastebin.com/Vf5pqaQs
> >> 
> >> Disks and slices: http://pastebin.com/2jc0fJPh
> >> 
> >> GPIO devices: http://pastebin.com/FvhQW5iL
> >> 

Here is output os rspro-ps program... What's that? Where does it get the data 
read from? Is there something on board itself connected to i2c bus or is it 
something externally connected?

> >> All installed ports: http://pastebin.com/yHcszFpR
> >> 
> >> It's running fully static, booting a gziped kernel from onboard flash
> >> and with a full system on a 8GB SD card (i've another two 4GB
> >> memsticks, one is used for ports and the other for sources and obj).
> > 
> > Again, it would be great if you could share your experience - I would
> > like to run from flash too, but did not came there yet, I am still only
> > at netboot stage with USB flasdisk based file system.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Milan
> 
> adrian@ keeps a wiki page with some information about this:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/UbiquityRouterstationPro
> 
> I'll poke him about a port for this flash tool, it's very simple to use.
> 

Is it possible to read/write flash from FreeBSD itself? When I add 
geom_redboot into kernel, I see /dev/redboot directory with flash parts, but I 
have no idea how to read them - dd if=/dev/redboot/<something> gives just an 
error and no data are read... Is some special tool necessary for that? I would 
like to make a backup copy of flash, just in case...

Also, there is a pin header marked UART, just opposite to RS232 connector. I 
would expect it to be a second serial interface, maybe, but I found no mention 
about it yet... Has anybody an answer?

Regards,
Milan