I've been working like a madman on bringing up a new Geode SC1100 based embedded board, but are stalled right now, and need help for debugging with FreeBSD....
The hardware basically seems to be working just fine, and I can boot both MS-DOS and OpenBSD 2.9 from a CompactFlash. But I can't boot FreeBSD, and need to find out why, and I'm looking for somebody that can help me, as I'm just the hardware guy....
When booting freeBSD I get:
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ok boot -v
Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #1: Sun Jun 8 19:08:24 PDT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERN_NSC
Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 266667486 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193267 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method
CPU: Cyrix GXm (266.65-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x540 DIR=0x81b7 Stepping=8 Revision=1
real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x00001000 - 0x0009efff, 647168 bytes (158 pages)
0x003c1000 - 0x07ff7fff, 130248704 bytes (31799 pages)
avail memory = 126984192 (124008K bytes)
bios32: Found BIOS32 Service Directory header at 0xc00f0080
bios32: Entry = 0xf00c0 (c00f00c0) Rev = 0 Len = 1
pcibios: PCI BIOS entry at 0xe1
Other BIOS signatures found:
ACPI: 00000000
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc039b000.
md0: Malloc disk
Creating DISK md0
Math emulator present
pci_open(1): mode 1 addr port (0x0cf8) is 0x800090d0
pci_open(1a): mode1res=0x80000000 (0x80000000)
pci_cfgcheck: device 0 [class=060000] [hdr=00] is there (id=00011078)And there it just hangs forever.... Normally it would continue with:
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard . . .
So it looks like it hangs between first PCI check probe and printing the NPX info. The question is, what hardware specific could there be that could hang ? It's probably PCI config or floating point related, I tried to follow the source, but couldn't really....
Some additional info:
The PCI bus seems fine, I can netboot, but it then hangs the same place. Same with a 4.2-release and 4.8-release. Same with and without NSC VSA extension. Same with GENERIC kernel. I did some search on the net, and all info indicated that a stock FreeBSD should work, although a patch for the TSC counter is needed for optimal performance and a patch if you use the Video (which the SC1100 don't have). I have tried every single register in the SC1100 chip (And there are tons of them...) I also tried changed the chip ID from "Geode by NSC" to "CyrixInstead", but that just resulted in FreeBSD recognizing the CPU and providing a little better CPU information.
More info on the hardware at: http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm
So I need:
All qualified help pinpointing the problem. Or a kernel hacker that can come by Morgan Hill, CA and debug the FreeBSD kernel telling me exactly where and why it hangs. Once I know that, it's usually easy to fix.
I'm prepared to pay for solving the problem, cash and/or net4801 hardware....
Regards,
Soren
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