From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sat May 16 06:24:15 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 2F1DC2E71E4 for ; Sat, 16 May 2020 06:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gold.funkthat.com [IPv6:2001:470:800b::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gate2.funkthat.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49PFbw1mFtz411s for ; Sat, 16 May 2020 06:24:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 04G5C8lS091885 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 15 May 2020 22:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 04G5C782091884; Fri, 15 May 2020 22:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 22:12:07 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: myfreeweb Cc: Dan Kotowski , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X Message-ID: <20200516051207.GT4213@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: myfreeweb , Dan Kotowski , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" References: <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D87A 235F FB71 1F3F 55B7 ED9B D5FF 5A51 C0AC 3D65 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: https://www.funkthat.com/ X-Resume: https://www.funkthat.com/~jmg/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 15 May 2020 22:12:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49PFbw1mFtz411s X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jmg@gold.funkthat.com has no SPF policy when checking 2001:470:800b::2) smtp.mailfrom=jmg@gold.funkthat.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.25 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-1.46)[ipnet: 2001:470::/32(-4.10), asn: 6939(-3.15), country: US(-0.05)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[funkthat.com]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] 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: Sat, 16 May 2020 06:24:15 -0000 myfreeweb wrote this message on Thu, May 14, 2020 at 15:48 +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 Layerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jessie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead. I have only minimal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at all with Crochet, but would like to learn. And while I cannot afford to donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds. > > Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stuff on such a machine!! ;) > > Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD. > > Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generic devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt If this is the case, then the generic aarch64 images should boot on it... Not sure what will happen w/ the SATA though... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."