Re: NetBSD on the Kurobox Pro

[Donald T Hayford <don%donhayford.com@localhost>]

KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
> I put source and diff at today.
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/orion_nas/
>     orion_nas-20080821.diff
>     orion_nas-20080821.tar.gz
>
> Also you can use
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/tmp/u-boot-mkimg.sh-20080821
>
> Put to sys/arch/evbarm/compile/u-boot-mkimage.sh
>
>   Marvell>> bootp $default_kernel_addr netbsd.img
>   Marvell>> bootm
>
>     * $default_kernel_addr is Linux's load address or appropriate address.
>
>
> You can config/build sys/arch/evbarm/KUROBOX_PRO or DNS323.
>   
Using your files above, I was able to get the KB/PRO to boot using NFS. 
The build was pretty painless once I got a set of source files that 
would build. I eventually used a date of 20080819-UTC for the cvs 
checkout, but had to manually download the three files from sys/dev/pci:
pcidevs (v 1.947), pcidevs.h(v 1.948), and pcidevs_data.h (v 1.947)
It seems like the changes to these three files (well, really just the 
pcidevs file, since the other two are generated from that one) could be 
committed now, since it's just a list of the pci devices. What do you 
think? It would make building a little simpler, since we wouldn't have 
to worry about other changes to the pcidev file that breaks the diff patch.

The KB/PRO seems to be running pretty well, though I haven't done 
extensive testing. At least, I haven't had any unexplainable crashes or 
hangups. One thing I notice is that the red error light flashes on the 
front 6 times, pauses, then repeats. Doesn't seem to do that when 
running Debian.

I'm a little confused by u-boot-mkimg.sh. I created an image using the 
compiled netbsd, and the KB/PRO would load it, but then it kept looking 
for an initrd.buffalo file, so I'm not sure what I was supposed to do. 
Incidentally, since I'm building on Linux, I had to use the objdump and 
objcopy in tools/bin to get the script to run correctly.

Thanks for your help (and the files). If you, or anyone else, has a 
little more light to throw out on creating images and what to do with 
them, I eagerly await.

Regards, Don