From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu May 14 15:48:57 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC282F5276 for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 15:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Received: from out0.migadu.com (out0.migadu.com [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:267::]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49NGDR25dWz4TXZ for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 15:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:48:47 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unrelenting.technology; s=default; t=1589471326; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=oQIgNDU+igdw8Oy7p/tAv4NL5mTdtUwjQ926KVLZ/dM=; b=ip5r+uDSqZ0Anj4S5jUQpdgc9LbDuCvGfakT7fMuqBNuxX9LczCgOITnud/tvJKscbNWTv dQPvGkPbSi+9SfqkF7Iyi58j9bISOEbHaaN3Osoc+S1udC3Gd0uFghY2+Ulr2YaoWMLG7d pqojMXZ+A0aZOfCIpPiTSEG6kg8Q6dg= X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: myfreeweb To: Dan Kotowski , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.10 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49NGDR25dWz4TXZ X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=unrelenting.technology header.s=default header.b=ip5r+uDS; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=unrelenting.technology; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of greg@unrelenting.technology designates 2001:41d0:2:267:: as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=greg@unrelenting.technology X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.59 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[unrelenting.technology:s=default]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.00)[-0.002,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2001:41d0:2:267::]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.968,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[unrelenting.technology:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[unrelenting.technology,none]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(1.38)[ipnet: 2001:41d0::/32(4.90), asn: 16276(1.98), country: FR(-0.00)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16276, ipnet:2001:41d0::/32, country:FR]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:48:57 -0000 On May 14, 2020 3:32:13 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski wrote: >I'm wondering if anybody knows of work being done to port FreeBSD to the = Layerscape platforms? > >I happen to have a SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K workstation, based on NXP's La= yerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jes= sie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead=2E I have only min= imal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at= all with Crochet, but would like to learn=2E And while I cannot afford to = donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds=2E Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stu= ff on such a machine!! ;) Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD=2E Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generi= c devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github=2Ecom/SolidRun/edk2-platfo= rms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt