Build for Intel iXP420 board?

Brett Glass brett at lariat.net
Thu Dec 10 22:48:09 UTC 2020


FreeBSD 9 or 10! These are just old enough that I can't find archives. Were
Avila images ever published in binary form, or would I have to set up a
development machine, check out old sources, and cross-build?

--Brett Glass


At 02:25 PM 12/10/2020, Warner Losh wrote:

>FreeBSD 9 or 10 or maybe 11 is your best bet. 'gateworks' I think 
>is what you want to search for in the sources, not avila, but 
>maybe you can use both to find them. The armv5 port was removed 
>from FreeBSD because it had bit rotted too much. I used to run 
>FreeBSD 8 on these boards as a wireless access point shortly after 
>Sam committed the code to the tree. I've had good luck with 
>FreeBSD stable/10 on other arm gear, but there's been reports of 
>issues on stable/10 with unaligned I/O causing problems for some 
>cache topologies.
>
>WarnerÂ



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