Introduction

• Device : ​Dreamplug
• Mission : Install FreeBSD on it to run it as home server.
• Reason : a) Energy consumption vs Performance: Low powered high specs device. b) Getting FreeBSD to run on ARM based devices.

References

• ​http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/GuruPlug
• ​http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell
• ​http://cooltrainer.org/projects/freebsd-kirkwood/
• ​http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-January/003245.html

Status

• 30/01/2012 - Board is not booting yet.

# make buildworld TARGET=arm

Fails with: ERROR: tables.o uses FPA instructions, whereas IPXrouted does not

# make buildworld TARGET=arm WITHOUT_IPX=1

# screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

Marvell>> version

U-Boot 2011.06-02334-g8f495d9-dirty (Mar 01 2011 - 06:57:05)
Marvell-DreamPlug
Marvell>> printenv
bootcmd=setenv ethact egiga0; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; setenv ethact egiga1; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; ${x_bootcmd_usb}; ${x_bootcmd_kernel}; setenv bootargs ${x_bootargs} ${x_bootargs_root}; bootm 0x6400000;
bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
x_bootcmd_ethernet=ping 192.168.2.1
x_bootcmd_usb=usb start
x_bootcmd_kernel=fatload usb 0 0x6400000 uImage
x_bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200
x_bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10
ethact=egiga0
ethaddr=F0:AD:4E:00:74:14
eth1addr=F0:AD:4E:00:74:15
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial

Environment size: 524/4092 bytes