On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> Well, the first roadblock will be getting Plan 9 to boot from the thing. > It appears to support netbooting, but I'm waiting for information on the > PC card devices that it supports doing that over. This would make it > MUCH easier for me (assuming it has some similarity to PXE) as writing > the 64MB image to the thing over serial takes a good 30 minutes or more. I'm booting my ts7200 just fine. You might want to develop on that to start. ron > > I've got a good bit of generic information about the SIMpad boot > loader, but need to figure out where to put the kernel and such > in an image. > > PBL V2.4 20.07.2001 > Booting... > ================================================ > Siemens Switzerland Bootloader V2.5.3 10.06.2003 > Running @206Mhz Processor ID 0x6901b118 > Press ESC for monitor > Occupied Memory: [0x00004000-0x00008000],[0x00008014-0x0007500c] > Flash Id 0x00000018 at virt adr 0x05000000 Size 0x01000000 > No 32Bit Flash detected 0x00000000 > FlashImage Checksum 0x05040014-0x05059f11=0x8912ac03 Bootloader Image > OK > Fabdata Flash @0x05059f18 Ram @0x00021f18 FABDATA: S842-KKFNX > MQ200 - Revision ID=2 ... > Initialise PCMCIA Interface... done. > Codec UCB1200 ID:0x1005 Ver.5 Dev.0 Suppl.1 IO 0x00000000 > No PCMCIA Card Attached > NO PCMCIA CARD! -- Use serial IO > Sysinit done > No serial download request > Boothdr at 0x05080000 -> 0x31415926 > Loading executable with header 0x0000 > [*********************|] 0kB/sec > Done > > On another note, is there a better developer's list to take > this thread to? I'm not sure it's entirely on-topic. > > Hm. Interesting. I just chose the `Boot from Net' option in the > serial loader menu. I get: > > ===================== > Monitor: > ===================== > Boot from Flash 'f' > Boot from Net 'n' > Power Off 'o' > Erase PSM+Registry'p' > Exit 'q' > Erase Registry 'r' > Erase Flash 'y' > Soft Reset 's' > Print Fab-String 'w' > -> n > Probing for any NE2K Card..... > > Quite cool. Too bad I don't have an NE2K PC card. I'll have to > see what such a thing costs and go from here. > > --Devon >
