DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Hi Jens. I'm just spinning-up a 2.6.24 kernel on a powerpc MPC5200 board. After some wrestling I got to EXACTLY the place you did: successful boot but with a VERY long delay between apparant kernel load by u-boot and console output.

Have you had any luck solving this delay problem? Can you offer me some advice?

Thanks!

You can reach me directly at

mike underscore timmons at comcast dot net

Hello
I am a old time coreboot developer and I have done a fair share of device hacking in my day. I just picked up a DSM-G600 for a fun side project. I was pretty disappointed in how limited the original u-boot is on this little box. So...
I plan on building a current dsmg600 target board for u-boot and hopefully i can get it approved to submit it to the u-boot repository. I don't know if any of you know but all the original d-link files for u-boot and Linux can be found on the d-link GPL website:

http://tsd.dlink.com.tw/

I have taken the d-link u-boot source and diff'd it to the original u-boot 0.2.0, so know I know what changes need to be made to get a full current version of u-boot running on this little box. Haha the d-link developers sure did alot of improper code hacking..... Any ways I am attaching the diff in case your interested in checking it out. So at this point I am going through all the diff code and compairing it to the most current version of you boot to see what needs to be changed.

Also I found this webpage on howto jtag a aMPC824x (sandpoint) board using a ByteBlaster cable and UrJTAG.

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/~frank/docs/mpc824x_JTAG.html

I have ordered my ByteBlaster jtag cable, just waiting for it to come, hopefully I wont need it but just in case i brick the board, lol.

Also because the chipset supports dual IDE channel I ordered a CF IDE Adapter and CF card, I should be able to setup a master/slave config. I hope the CF and IDE hard drive will bot be able to fit in the case?  I will be using it to develop a Modern embedded Linux OS for this little box. Because the 2.6 kernel will probably be too large to fit in flash it and the ram-disk will either boot from CF or USB possibly?

Anyways Thank you very much for your hard work on getting the jtag up and running jens! Much appreciated

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Attachments:
u-boot-diff.tar.gz, Size: 45,262 bytes, Downloads: 617

I think the NetBSD altboot stg.c driver will work just fine