Module Name: src
Committed By: phx
Date: Sun Jan 1 14:16:41 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot: README.altboot
Log Message:
Add Iomega StorCenter.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot
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Modified files:
Index: src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot
diff -u src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.6 src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.7
--- src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot:1.6 Sun Nov 13 16:22:18 2011
+++ src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/altboot/README.altboot Sun Jan 1 14:16:41 2012
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/// notes about altboot ///
-$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.6 2011/11/13 16:22:18 phx Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.7 2012/01/01 14:16:41 phx Exp $
Altboot is a functional bridge to fill the gap between a NAS product
custom bootloader and the NetBSD kernel startup environment. Altboot
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ NetBSD kernels.
Altboot is known working on at least these models:
-- KuroBox or LinkStation with a popular U-Boot as the replacement of
- vendor proprietary
+- KuroBox or LinkStation with a popular U-Boot as replacement of
+ the vendor's proprietary one
U-Boot 1.1.4 LiSt 2.1.0 (Sep 21 2006 - 00:22:56) LinkStation / KuroBox
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Altboot is known working on at least the
U-Boot 1.1.2 (Aug 28 2005 - 13:37:25) QNAP System, Inc.
+- Iomega StorCenter with vendor custom U-Boot
+
+ U-Boot 1.0.0 (Sep 2 2005 - 14:49:11)
+
The standard use of altboot is to invoke it with a short script from
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
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ In case the firmware was crippled by the
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
+Altboot passes the following bootinfo records to the NetBSD/sandpoint
kernel.
- processor clock tick value driving MPC8241/8245.
- serial console selection.
