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Add Iomega StorCenter.

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/// notes about altboot ///
$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.6 2011/11/13 16:22:18 phx Exp $
$NetBSD: README.altboot,v 1.7 2012/01/01 14:16:41 phx Exp $
Altboot is a functional bridge to fill the gap between a NAS product
custom bootloader and the NetBSD kernel startup environment. Altboot
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Altboot is known working on at least these models:
- KuroBox or LinkStation with a popular U-Boot as the replacement of
vendor proprietary
- KuroBox or LinkStation with a popular U-Boot as replacement of
the vendor's proprietary one
U-Boot 1.1.4 LiSt 2.1.0 (Sep 21 2006 - 00:22:56) LinkStation / KuroBox
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U-Boot 1.1.2 (Aug 28 2005 - 13:37:25) QNAP System, Inc.
- Iomega StorCenter with vendor custom U-Boot
U-Boot 1.0.0 (Sep 2 2005 - 14:49:11)
The standard use of altboot is to invoke it with a short script from
U-Boot/PPCboot, where the altboot.bin image is stored in an unoccupied 128KB
section of the target's HW NOR flash. Combined with standard
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Linux U-Boot images (D-Link), you can still use altboot by uploading
altboot.img instead of the Linux kernel.
Altboot hands the following bootinfo records to the NetBSD/sandpoint
Altboot passes the following bootinfo records to the NetBSD/sandpoint
kernel.
- processor clock tick value driving MPC8241/8245.
- serial console selection.