From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 16:36:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D9916A415 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aag.lists@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DBE43D5F for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aag.lists@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so324438nzh for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:36:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I71sFVmc9cWf8oTTS/qiMWEHl2mN8FEMox/dB0qcNDO9HETNJW/LjPGKmhLNFi3RLRYkaAFCPeBnAZi4SIxQhq1RU4OhbfP3ZjF/51f/JhyR/Mpocezqb87z2HTWpWxZUmqIDCLvJ/Oay7tGfSbr2R7/H9W9azdNkR/NarWAHik= Received: by 10.35.8.13 with SMTP id l13mr1112714pyi.1163695001644; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.59.14 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:36:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2f3a439f0611160836r3c88c3f4ja9cc5a5f4b78a244@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:06:41 +0530 From: "Aditya Godbole" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f3a439f0611160556o6e643561sf45bccab2ad769ad@mail.gmail.com> <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: Ramdisk support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:36:45 -0000 On 11/16/06, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I see. Is it PXE-compliant? If so, you can use FreeBSD's > PXE bootloader (/boot/pxeboot) for loading the kernel. In > that case you can also load the root FS image as a separate > file, so there is no need to hack it into the kernel binary. > u-boot is not PXE compliant. I have never come across anyone trying to use it to boot FreeBSD before. Unfortunately, that is the only bootloader that I know of that works on the architecture I'm working on. > As far as I know, there is no official support for loading > a FreeBSD kernel directly, without using the FreeBSD boot > loader. > Yes. However for putting FreeBSD on embedded systems, I have to make tweaks to allow it to boot using other bootloaders. I'm working on putting FreeBSD on the MPC8555 e500-PPC based board, which is not supported at all. > By the way, why don't you simply mount the root FS via NFS? > Is the NIC not supported? What NIC is it? > Quite a bit of the hardware is not supported in FreeBSD right now. Probably this discussion should go on the embedded mailing list, but I thought I would get a better response here for my original specific question. (Can't say I was wrong). Cheers. -- aditya