Intel IXDP425 eval board

[Roman Le Houelleur]

Thank you all for your answers,

It seems the explanation is just hereunder, I hope to
find some time to give it a try today. I will also
check the UARTS btw, it does have two ports indeed.

I do not know if A* boards are common, the one I have
is quite old I think, so I guess no.
I actually need to evaluate the performance of the IXP42*
plateform. If I run in too much trouble with this old board
I might well go for an avila. We (you) probably don't want
to spend much time on this particular one.

I will get back to you asap with the results.

Thanks,
Roman.

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Roman Le Houelleur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all, congratulation for the work being done porting
>> FreeBSD to the IXP425 !
>>
>> I have an IXDP425 eval board rev A3 from Intel on which I
>> tried the AVILA procedure as is, just in case, strictly
>> following information from:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/README-gateworks
> 
> My IAL replacement code does not support A3 revs.  To fix that you need
> to add to the qmgr support as the A3 hardware does not have certain
> functionality the current code assumes.
> 
> I assumed A* boards would be rare; am I wrong?
> 
>> Unfortunatly it will not "go", but just freeze:
>> RedBoot> reset
>> ... Resetting.
>> +in bist
>> out bist
>> begin @ 0x00008f60 ; end @ 0x00008f70
>> (0) init_entry = 0x00008f60 ; fun @ 0x50005ef8
>> (1) init_entry = 0x00008f64 ; fun @ 0x50017ef0
>> (2) init_entry = 0x00008f68 ; fun @ 0x500071d4
>> (3) init_entry = 0x00008f6c ; fun @ 0x5001f534
>> nfe : regval[0] = 0x0013
>> Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:00:83:28:50:22
>> IP: 172.16.0.44, Default server: 172.16.0.50
>>
>> RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]
>>  release, version 1.92p1 - built 17:24:25, Jul 19 2004
>>
>> Platform: IXP425 ANTA (XScale)
>> Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.
>>
>> RAM: 0x00000000-0x08000000, 0x0001c068-0x07fd1000 available
>> FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x51000000, 128 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
>> RedBoot> ip -h 192.168.31.182 -l 192.168.31.90
>> IP: 192.168.31.90, Default server: 192.168.31.182
>> RedBoot> load -b 0x200000 kernel-avila.nfs
>> Using default protocol (TFTP)
>> Address offset = 0x40000000
>> Entry point: 0x00200100, address range: 0x00200000-0x006c9aa8
>> RedBoot> go
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this board ? Does it
>> have any chance to work w/ the AVILA kernel config, or
>> is this one too specific ?
>>
>> I am using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Dec 14 16:10:30 UTC 2006
> 
> It should definitely get further than that but I wouldn't expect the npe
> support to work right.  Try enabling bootverbose by patching the code
> (since we don't have proper bootstrap support yet to pass that in from
> redboot).
> 
> 	Sam

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