AVR32

AVR32 is a 32 bit RISC architecture from Atmel designed for high throughput with low power consumption. This port targets the bigger AP7 chips.

Atmel NGW100 http://atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4102

NGW100 boots to single user mode

• Booting kernel with tftp
• Mounting rootfs from onboard flash (cfi) or using nfs
• Can execute statically linked commands in single user mode

• Dynamic linking (binutils bug?)
• Lots of other stuff

• http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=2N4@//depot/projects/avr32/?ac=83

TBD

U-boot 1.3 or later is required to boot. Update instructions and binaries can be found at http://www.atmel.no/buildroot/buildroot-u-boot.html

Only tested why of booting is using tftp, dhcpd and nfs. * Setup isc-dhcpd and add the following entry:

host ngw {
        hardware ethernet <board mac address>;
        option root-path "<nfs server>:<avr32 root>";
        next-server <tfpd server>;
        filename "kernel.uboot";
}

• Board mac address can be found by typing 'printenv ethaddr' in u-boot
• Enable nfsd and add line for <avr32 root> to /etc/exports
• Enable tftpd in inetd.conf, modify -s parameter to point to directory with AVR32 kernels

To boot, type: 'dhcp; bootm' in u-boot.