How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO

[Aleksandr Rybalko]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:18:09 -0700
Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> Do you want to boot the RS Pro from network, or from NAND?  If from
> network, there are probably instructions elsewhere that would be more
> useful, and hopefully someone else knows where to link to (I don't.)
> 
> If you want to boot from NAND, things get a little tricky.  FreeBSD
> doesn't have usable NAND support yet, so you'll have to boot Linux to
> copy the kernel to NAND flash, and you'll have to erase NAND from the
> bootloader before doing that otherwise Linux may place the FreeBSD
> kernel outside of the range that RouterBOOT is willing to read from.
> Also, you kernel has to be under 4MB big for the same reason.

IIRC RSPro have 16M of NOR flash (cfi driver), not NAND :)

> 
> If you can get that all sorted out (and I'm happy to help you if this
> isn't too daunting) you'll need to use the patches Patrick Kelsey
> posted recently to add MMC support on SPI buses to keep your root file
> system on an SD card.
> 
> It's kind of a pain right now, and I haven't included detailed
> instructions here because this all is in a bit of a state of flux
> right now.  Someone should be committing Patrick's MMC driver soon
> (I'll likely do it if nobody else does) and then NAND support should
> be improving in the near future.  It may be that in the very near
> future it will be possible to simply netboot a kernel with a
> compiled-in root filesystem that then installs the kernel and root
> filesystem for you, but for now it's a lot of work piecing together a
> working NAND setup, and then using makefs to create a big-endian
> filesystem and put it on an SD card.  If you want to give it a shot
> right now, do let me know, and I'll gather up the more detailed
> instructions I have and post them to the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Juli.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:58, Jan Augusta <jan.augusta at fifejdy.cz>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > can anybody give me a manual how to compile and install Freebsd to
> > Routerstation PRO?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jan
> >
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