First RSPRO deployed !

[Monthadar Al Jaberi]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips at dino.sk> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 13:43:51 Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Well, with mkfwimage it is possible to write FreeBSD into flash on RSPRO and
> boot from it. I just verified this. Using it the way it's used in mkflash
> script has one drawback, I think - your setup is static and you are not using
> whole flash to its best potential as well. Actually, with patches you are able
> to read flash (verified) and probably write to it, too, so the 'only'
> remaining part is ffs tuned to use it...

mm, as I understood it it should be easy for ffs2 to work, just need
to fix some macros so that the code that probes for the superblock
work...
reading/writting to flash with correct sectorsize is no problem....

>
> Regards,
> Milan
>



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