From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 08:15:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E6916A401 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from fep02.xtra.co.nz (fep02.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDF813C4A5 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:15:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from serv.int.fubar.geek.nz ([125.237.111.96]) by fep02.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20070301081502.IUJU19815.fep02.xtra.co.nz@serv.int.fubar.geek.nz>; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:15:02 +1300 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:15:01 +1300 From: Andrew Turner To: olivier@gautherot.net Message-ID: <20070301211501.3d34fbdb@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <200703010020.50556.ogautherot@vtr.net> References: <200703010020.50556.ogautherot@vtr.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ogautherot@vtr.net, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-on-Efika starter's kit... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:15:05 -0000 On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:20:50 -0300 Olivier Gautherot wrote: > Hi folks! > > I am about to receive my Efika board and wondered if there was a > repository somewhere with the attempts made to run the system on this > board. I guess the first step is to (cross-)compile the kernel and > the universe. Should I use gcc-powerpc from the ports for this > purpose? > > Thanks in advance for any hint There is no repository with the changes in it yet but have a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2007-February/002102.html. It contains the patch I have used to boot FreeBSD on an EFIKA. The only other change is to comment out the FIRMWORKSBUGS ifdef and endif after __start in locore.S. To build the cross compiler you just need to run "make kernel-toolchain TARGET=powerpc". There is no need to install anything from ports. Currently FreeBSD doesn't get to single user mode on an EFIKA so there is no need to build anything other than the kernel and loader. Andrew