Build for Intel iXP420 board?

[John-Mark Gurney]

Brett Glass wrote this message on Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 15:42 -0700:
> 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?

I don't think FreeBSD ever produced images for them.  I happen to have
used one recently, and even have one within a few feet of me right now..

I don't remember what the last release I ran on them but both 10 and 11
both still have the AVILA config file:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/sys/arm/conf/

You do have the benefit that the boards have u-boot on them (iirc),
so you don't have to "deal" with building and putting a custom u-boot
to load our loader, but I am trying to remember what I did to load our
laoder to boot the UFS image from the CF card...

Looks like most of this is documented on the wiki:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDAvila

I just updated the wiki to make sure people know that these boards are
no longer supported.

> 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.

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