AR9132 CPU and AR9100 wireless support

[Tom Judge]

On 09/14/2010 04:08 PM, Outback Dingo wrote:
> Ive got some Ubiquiti mips devices id love to get FreeBSD on permanently
> and a Netgear WNDR370, if only we could boot FreeBSD out of redboot
> and flash it to them it would seriously ROCK,
>
>    

Booting FreeBSD out of redboot should be no problem. I have used the 
redboot loader on a Intel NAS to load a FreeBSD kernel and boot 
successfully, this was an arm core rather than mips however.

If you have a working redboot you can also use the redboot shell to 
flash your kernel (with embedded MFS image) into the SPI part and then 
rewrite the load script to boot that.

The debian-installer armel handbook had some useful docs in it for the 
platform I was working on, as well as the official redboot site.

Tom
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Stefan Bethke<stb at lassitu.de>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Am 14.09.2010 um 11:35 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I've just pushed the initial support for the AR9100 wireless MAC into
>>> my git repository. This is for the WMAC on the AR9132 SoC.
>>>
>>> I've tested it in 11bg hostap mode on an AP83 derived box - the
>>> TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. The source tree has support for the CPU, ethernet
>>> (but not the switch PHY; it's enough to get data across it!); flash
>>> and the AR9100 WMAC.
>>>
>>> I've only tested "open" hostap mode on 11bg on a fixed channel.
>>>
>>> The GIT repo is at:
>>> http://www.gitorious.org/~adrianchadd/freebsd/adrianchadd-freebsd ;
>>> it's the "work/atheros" branch. You'll need to open the unit up,
>>> solder on some pins to get to the serial port and acquire a TTL ->
>>> RS232 level converter. There's pictures and howto on the OpenWRT wiki:
>>> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd
>>>        
>> That sounds really nice!  Is there some guide on how to prepare an image?
>>   I'm quite familiar with OpenWrt (patching and building) and have a number
>> of routers (WRT-160N, WR941NL, 500gP) with serial adapters attached, but
>> from the messages on the mips list, it felt the bootstrapping process might
>> be a bit dauting...
>>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> --
>> Stefan Bethke<stb at lassitu.de>    Fon +49 151 14070811
>>
>>
>>
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