[ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

Davide louigi600 at yahoo.it
Tue Apr 19 13:06:23 UTC 2011


> > Well yeah .... I've an update on this:
> > I did nothing but change the usb port from closest to
> RJ45 to the one nets
> > to the closest to RJ45. This time it boots.
> >
> > I'll investigate further on this ...
> 
> AFAIK the dockstar has native USB ports and some ports
> provided by an 
> additional hub. Maybe this makes a difference.

As far as I know kirkwood has 1 usb port that is connected to an onboard 4 port hub ... so all external usb ports should be exactly the same.

Anyway I've tracked the problem to be specific to the usb2sata adapter inside my lace usb HDU ... see an earlier mail I just sent.

> 
> > This is on a brand new dockstar (I've now 2 of these
> things) but the seem
> > to have small hardware differences ... read on
> >
> > Also Another thing I noticed: the led stopped working
> and things do not
> > look rigth in /sys
> 
> Do cat /proc/cpuinfo. Do you have "Hardware: Seagate
> FreeAgent DockStar"? If 
> not the "arcNumber" that gives u-boot to the kernel is
> wrong. IIRC arcNumber 
> 2998 is the right one for the Dockstar. 2097 is Sheevaplug.
> Please search for 
> it in Doozans forum.
> The arcNumber sets some board specific details like LED
> setup.

this is what my cpuinfo says on my new dockstar:
Processor       : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 1192.75
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp 
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x2
CPU part        : 0x131
CPU revision    : 1
Cache type      : write-back
Cache clean     : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown  : format C
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 16384
I assoc         : 4
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 128
D size          : 16384
D assoc         : 4
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 128

Hardware        : Feroceon-KW
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000

But a swear I took this board out of a brand new dockstar case .... package sealed .... etc ... etc


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