Module Name: src
Committed By: phx
Date: Fri Apr 8 08:29:07 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot: README.altboot
Log Message:
QNAP support.
Note about the D-Link firmware.
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Index: src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot
diff -u src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.2 src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.3
--- src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.2 Sun Mar 13 15:23:43 2011
+++ src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot Fri Apr 8 08:29:07 2011
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
/// notes about altboot ///
-$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.2 2011/03/13 15:23:43 phx Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.3 2011/04/08 08:29:07 phx Exp $
Altboot is a functional bridge to fill the gap between a NAS product
custom bootloader and the NetBSD kernel startup environment. Altboot
irons out and rectifies erroneously configured HW by product
-bootloaders and prepares a sane runtime better suited for booting
+bootloaders and prepares a sane runtime, better suited for booting
NetBSD kernels.
- provides the foundation of a fast NetBSD porting cycle with functionalities
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
targets to make it possible having common NetBSD kernels for them.
- builds and hands a bootinfo list to the NetBSD kernel.
-Altboot is known working on at least three models.
-- KuroBox with a popular U-Boot as the replacement of vendor proprietary
+Altboot is known working on at least these models:
+
+- KuroBox or LinkStation with a popular U-Boot as the replacement of
+ vendor proprietary
U-Boot 1.1.4 LiSt 2.1.0 (Sep 21 2006 - 00:22:56) LinkStation / KuroBox
@@ -30,14 +32,22 @@
U-Boot 0.2.0 (May 26 2005 - 19:38:32)
+- QNAP TS-101 (V200) with vendor custom U-Boot
+
+ U-Boot 1.1.2 (Aug 28 2005 - 13:37:25) QNAP System, Inc.
+
The standard use of altboot is to invoke it with a short script from
-U-Boot/PPCboot, where the altboot image is stored in an unoccupied 128KB
+U-Boot/PPCboot, where the altboot.bin image is stored in an unoccupied 128KB
section of the target's HW NOR flash. Combined with standard
U-Boot/PPCboot functions, it is possible to boot a NetBSD kernel off
it right after power-on, without the help of manual intervention. Note
that the original U-Boot/PPCboot still remains useful and altboot works
as a functional extension for them.
+In case the firmware was crippled by the vendor so that it only boots
+Linux U-Boot images (D-Link), you can still use altboot by uploading
+altboot.img instead of the Linux kernel.
+
Altboot hands the following bootinfo records to the NetBSD/sandpoint
kernel.
- processor clock tick value driving MPC8241/8245.
