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Date:      Sat, 23 May 2009 17:21:28 +1200
From:      Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200
Message-ID:  <20090523172128.2e0a3f2b@fubar.geek.nz>
In-Reply-To: <C311B781-ED46-4F5B-A251-F6138A0FACBE@semihalf.com>
References:  <35914876-0CFF-427B-8F80-B1BEEA5A7A18@semihalf.com> <4A0824E3.8070606@fang.fa.gau.hu> <C311B781-ED46-4F5B-A251-F6138A0FACBE@semihalf.com>

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On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:01 +0200
Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2009-05-11, at 15:15, Peter Czanik wrote:
> 
> > Rafal Jaworowski írta:
> >> I'd like to let people know that FreeBSD/powerpc is now able to
> >> boot into single user on the Freescale MPC5200 system-on-chip
> >> (EFIKA board). The environment is very simplistic: RAM disk based
> >> root fs, as
> >> there's no peripherals drivers besides serial console and the
> >> built- in
> >> PIC. See this log: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/logs/efika.log
> > Wow, great news! Two questions:
> > - are there any plans to support additional devices?
> 
> We don't have immediate plans for other devices drivers, but this  
> basic support will be merged into SVN, and it would be greatly
> welcome to see people help with remaining items.
Is there a patch available? I would like to get back to working on the
EFIKA.

Andrew


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