DFL-200¶

Parts:

SoC	IXP422	Intel
RAM	64M	?
Flash	4M	Intel xxx
Switch	RTL8305SB	Realtek
Ethernet controller	RTL8100B	Realtek
IDE controller	PDC20275	Promise
RTC	RS5C372A	Ricoh

Features:

100Eth	6	1 on NPE-? (WAN) (xxx wan is the rtl i think) 1 on the RTL8100B (DMZ) 4 on NPE-? connected to the switch
LEDs	1	GPIO-controlled Status LED (plus Ethernet port LEDs controlled by the switch)
BTNs	1	GPIO, Reset button on the rear panel, active low
GPIO	4	On GPIOA1; 2 of these are the IIC bus
CF	1	On the IDE controller
RTC	1	With battery backup; on the IIC bus
JTAG	2	1 standard 20-pin ARM JTAG 1 unknown, possibly the DSP engine
Serial	1	RS-232 on the rear panel

The board has unpopulated space for two more SDRAMs and a Mini-PCI Type III connector (some supporting parts may be missing).

The board comes with RedBoot custom-tailored to run Clavister's second-stage loader and OS from the CF card.

RedBoot is scattered over a total of 512K of the 4M flash.

GPIO setup¶

GPIO	Function	Note
0
1
2
3
4
5	GPIO5	On GPIOA1
6	IIC SCL	Also on GPIOA1
7	IIC SDA	Also on GPIOA1
8
9	PCI INTA
10	PCI INTB
11
12	Rear-panel Reset button	Active low
13	IO reset	probably; connected to switch #RESET pin also resets the PCI bus
14	GPIO14	On GPIO1A
15	Status LED	(probably? Supposed to be the PCI clock?)

GPIOA1 header¶

Pin	Function
1	GPIO14
3	IIC SDA
5	IIC SCL
7	GPIO5
2, 4, 6, 8	GND

RedBoot¶

Console is 9600,8N1.

Flash layout:

Name	FLASH addr	Mem addr	Length	Entry point
RedBoot	0x50000000	0x50000000	0x00040000	0x00000000
mac	0x50040000	0x10000000	0x00020000	0x10000000
FIS directory	0x503E0000	0x503E0000	0x0001F000	0x00000000
RedBoot config	0x503FF000	0x503FF000	0x00001000	0x00000000

RedBoot comes up with a default menu that allows selecting between booting the Clavister OS (this is done automatically after a timeout) or enter the RedBoot command line.

Although RedBoot is able to write configuration to flash memory, it ignores (at least some of the) settings contained there (console_baud_rate). The flash config doesn't contain the NPE MAC addresses either. Make note of your MAC addresses from the original OS.

Automatic booting¶

Booting the Clavister OS is done by the following command sequence:

load -m disk -b 0x100000 hda1:FWLOADER.CFX
go -c 0x101028

This will load FWLOADER.CFX from the first CF partition, which must be either FAT or ext2fs. Any file named FWLOADER.CFX can be loaded as long as it satisfies the following (known) constraints:

• Begins with a 4136-byte long DOS/PE stub (it must be a proper DOS/PE stub, at least to some as-of-yet-unknown extent)
• The payload after the stub must be a tagged image (ie. ELF)

Miscellaneous notes¶

If GPIO5 is grounded when power is applied, the board enters some sort of a simple self-test routine.