From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 00:03:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A431316A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24FC43FBD for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:03:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 36863 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 07:03:34 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Oct 2003 07:03:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3F7D1F45.7060004@liwing.de> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:03:33 +0000 From: Jens Rehsack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030928 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Grehan References: <3F7C08B9.6080803@liwing.de> <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7D1D7E.11616929@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC Subject: Re: Initially setting up power pc X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:03:39 -0000 Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Jens, > > >>as I asked in May, is their any chance for me to setup a cd or hard >>disk to get my IBM 43p booting a freebsd? My question is: how do I >>cross-compile my src-tree and how do I have to set up the hard disk >>I put in the machine (or how do I create a cd-image, because 'make >>isoimage' seems not to work or I'm to stupid for this)? > > > To cross-compile the source tree: > > # make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildworld > # make -DNOLIBC_R TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildkernel Ok, than it's build. How do I get this into the machine? > Now, since this is an IBM Power machine, and unsupported by FreeBSD/PPC, > the first step is probably to see if the FreeBSD loader will be accepted > by OpenFirmware. The best bet would be to see if you could get Linux > up and running on the box, since that would provide an environment where > you could gather info on how to boot the box and it's h/w internals. Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000. Best, Jens