Support for Olimex CS-EP930x board

"Ivan Vasilev" <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:29:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I have successfuly booted and installed NetBSD3.0 on this board( http://olimex.com/dev/cs-e9301.html ) using a custom install kernel(based on evbarm/ts7200 with Technologic Systems's proprietary stuff removed). The root filesystem is on a USB flash drive. Things that work out of the box:
- Ethernet
- USB host controller
- serial ports

I'm planning to rewrite the factory test software to NetBSD userland program so in the future there could be some example sources for acessing the GPIO, ADC, EEPROM and MMC card. 
The boot log can be found at http://l123.org/~ivan/netbsd-ep9301_boot.txt

I have two questions though. The first one is technical - when the network media selection is left on auto, it fails to come up. When you manually select a media type everything works OK. Is this a known problem and if so is it fixed in more recent versions? (I used the 3.0 release which is more than half a year old). 

The second question is a legal one. From my reading of the redistribution page ( http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html ), we(Olimex) can distribute the boards with a NetBSD kernel preloaded in flash, as long as the board's documentation includes the relevant licensing information(along with NetBSD's source code and binary installation sets). But that's my reading and I will appreciate it if somebody clarifies this point.


- Ivan
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