Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and 7.2 and higher): - WRAP 1C - WRAP 2E (EOL) - ALIX 1C Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. My question/suggestion to announce this in the>7.2 and 8.0 release notes. (or better to fix the issues)kind regards, Marten -- http://www.voedselbankleiden.nl Needs your help! http://martenvijn.nl http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://opencommunitycamp.org OCC 2010
In article <1091012.9283.79817@localhost> you wrote:> Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > 7.2 and higher): > > - WRAP 1C > - WRAP 2E (EOL) > - ALIX 1C > > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's.I have FreeBSD 8 running on WRAP and ALIX boards. LBA support for ALIX is broken in older versions of the BIOS. For LBA to work you need BIOS v0.99h. What problems are you seeing? Larry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gta.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080
On Thursday 12 November 2009 9:26:38 am Marten Vijn wrote:> Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > 7.2 and higher): > > - WRAP 1C > - WRAP 2E (EOL) > - ALIX 1C > > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's.What are these devices? Random model numbers generally aren't enough context for most people to figure out what you are asking. Are these embedded ARM boards, storage controllers, wireless NICs, etc.? -- John Baldwin
Marten Vijn wrote:> Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > 7.2 and higher): >> - ALIX 1CFor what it's worth, I've run the entire 7-STABLE and 8-CURRENT/STABLE development cycle kernels on a similarily equipped fit-pc with AMD Geode (I think it is LX800) without any issue at all.
Marten Vijn wrote:> Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > 7.2 and higher): > > - WRAP 1C > - WRAP 2E (EOL) > - ALIX 1C > > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. > > My question/suggestion to announce this in the >> 7.2 and 8.0 release notes. (or better to fix the issues)Sorry for the late reply, but I may have a lead on some of these issues. NanoBSD is used for the embedded versions of pfSense now, and so we've had a lot of users of ALIX/WRAP/etc giving it a workout. Take a look at some of the articles I've written so far based on information myself and others have collected. http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/NanoBSD_on_WRAP http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/ALIX_BIOS_Update_Procedure http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting (First few items) It seems on the ALIX boards with VGA, you need to set a BIOS option for power management to APM, which gets it past the freeze at devd. Also, we've been running kernels with the geode.c rev 1.11 mentioned elsewhere in this thread for months patched against 7.2-RELEASE and it works great for most ALIX models, but according to our users it does not seem to offer any additional support for the models with a VGA BIOS (LEDs and such still are not usable). Apparently they use an Award BIOS and not TinyBIOS. Hope this helps, Jim