First RSPRO deployed !

Monthadar Al Jaberi monthadar at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 12:43:53 UTC 2010


OMG, thank you Luiz for the file.... Adrian forgot to mention that you
need to add kern_memstart field to the fw_layout_data structure!!!

Its works...so I guess to boot from flash we need to play with the
flash driver and ffs... thats a totally different story though :P

br,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Luiz Otavio O Souza
<lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote:
>
>>>> Do you have proper name of this fw image? I've read somewhere that it's
>>>> required.
>>>> My working name is RSPRO.ar7100pro.FreeBSD.Test and you can change the
>>>> last two words for sure.
>>>
>>> You mean the name of the file that mkfwimage generates?
>>> I just called it something like firmware-image...
>>>
>>> I changed the name, but still got:
>>> TFTPD: Incoming connection from 192.168.1.102:25789
>>> Received:  6881688 bytes
>>> Invalid image format (error: -2)
>> Actually not the filename but if you run mkfwimage with parameters then you
>> have the version string which in my case is as above.
>>
>> For building image I run:
>> mkfwimage -v RSPRO.ar7100pro.FreeBSD.Test -B RSPRO -o image.bin -k kernel.gz\
>> -r rootfs
>>
>
>
> Yes, that is correct, i've used the following two version strings with success:
>
> RS.ar7100.FreeBSD - for routerstation
>
> RSPRO.ar7100pro.FreeBSD - for rspro
>
> Just pick the correct one for your board.
>
> I've my scripts here (together with mkfwimage files): /loos.no-ip.org:280/rspro/rs-mkfwimage.tar.gz
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Luiz
>
>



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//Monthadar Al Jaberi


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