From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 04:35:15 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 9F8EE16A412 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from fep04.xtra.co.nz (fep04.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D0913C442 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from serv.int.fubar.geek.nz ([222.155.174.46]) by fep04.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20070118043419.HCQP1306.fep04.xtra.co.nz@serv.int.fubar.geek.nz>; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:34:19 +1300 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:34:19 +1300 From: Andrew Turner To: olivier@gautherot.net Message-ID: <20070118173419.241ee9a4@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <200701172301.20139.ogautherot@vtr.net> References: <200701172301.20139.ogautherot@vtr.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Raquel, "Ricardo Albarracin B." , ogautherot@vtr.net, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on EFIKA 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, 18 Jan 2007 04:35:15 -0000 On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:01:18 -0300 Olivier Gautherot wrote: > Hi folks! > > Good to see activity on this project. I am currently investigating > with a friend what platform to use for embedded systems - we > saw the standard x86 clones but it would be more fun to use > an "exotic" architecture and we were impressed by the Efika > (2W for a 400MHz processor is a real achievement). Our > dream is to go to a local FreeBSD conference (we are based > in Chile) and run the presentation on this board - surely a > long way to go... Currently FreeBSD doesn't get very far through the boot process on an EFIKA. I am working on tracking down why it is causing a panic early on however I have been busy with other commitments so this may take some time. If you do get an EFIKA it will still require work to port FreeBSD to. When I have time I will look at a patch sent to the NetBSD list regarding the way it calls OpenFirmware. The problem is the equivalent code in FreeBSD is written in C. Andrew