WIP: Ubiquity's router station

So it has been a month since last post about this device and I think it's time to announce current state of affairs.

• UART: just works
  
• PCI controller: kind of works. Proper interrupt handling/routing required.
  
• On-board ethernet controller: WAN port works fine. Mounts NFS root/loads init. Some minor work should be done in order to get both ports working.
  
• Integrated OHCI controller: kernel detects and initializes it. Need USB cable to connect something to headers on the board and test if it actually works.
  
• Integrated EHCI controller: in progress. Some refactoring of current MIPS bus_space implementation required.
  
• GPIO: to be done
  
• Flash memory: to be done
  

At the moment further progress was blocked with something that looks like memory corruption. It's hard to trace with ktr(4) and printf(9) so I ordered Flyswatter JTAG adapter and MIPS14 adapter from Tin Can Tools. I was warned that Flyswatter/MIPS combination is not supported by OpenOCD but I'd better spend some time making it work then tracing obscure memory corruptions in the wild.

Scheduled for reading

Has just received two books from Amazon.



The first one is Beautiful Architecture by fellow FreeBSD developer Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios Gousios. I bought it because software design is not my strongest skill and there is a lot of place for improvement. And learning from real life examples is always better then reading pure theory.



The other one is The Productive Programmer by David Bock. Productivity is my sweet spot (well, it's more about cool tips then real productivity boost). This had nice reviews so I decided to give it a try.