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 ====== FreeBSD/arm for Gateworks Avila board ====== ====== FreeBSD/arm for Gateworks Avila board ======
  
-This procedure has been tested on %%FreeBSD%% HEAD and RELENG_9 systems.+<callout type="warning"> 
 +**No longer supported** 
 + 
 +Support for these boards have been removed.  The last branch to support it is stable/11, but may need to go to previous stable branches for functional support.  stable/9 is known to work. 
 +</callout>
  
 ===== Building and Booting Diskless ===== ===== Building and Booting Diskless =====
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 <code> <code>
-make TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armeb TARGET_CPUTYPE=xscale buildworld +make TARGET_ARCH=armeb TARGET_CPUTYPE=xscale buildworld 
 </code> </code>
  
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 ===== Boot kernel from CF ===== ===== Boot kernel from CF =====
  
-Past this you can setup a %%FreeBSD%% installation on compact flash and use RedBoot to load a second level bootstrap from the onboard flash that loads %%FreeBSD%% from compact flash.  The running sytem then uses a file system written to compact flash.  Note that this two-stage boot process is necessary because RedBoot does not understand how to load a file from a Unix File System (UFS)--the standard filesystem used by %%FreeBSD%%.+Past this you can setup a %%FreeBSD%% installation on compact flash and use %%RedBoot%% to load a second level bootstrap from the onboard flash that loads %%FreeBSD%% from compact flash.  The running sytem then uses a file system written to compact flash.  Note that this two-stage boot process is necessary because %%RedBoot%% does not understand how to load a file from a Unix File System (UFS)--the standard filesystem used by %%FreeBSD%%.
  
 ==== On the build machine: ==== ==== On the build machine: ====
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 </code> </code>
  
-To set the default boot to happen from compact flash just change the RedBoot configuration to do the above steps automatically; e.g.+To set the default boot to happen from compact flash just change the %%RedBoot%% configuration to do the above steps automatically; e.g.
  
 <code> <code>
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