From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 16:26:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 EA25E16A625; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from mail.genesippc.com (mithrandir.softwarenexus.net [66.98.186.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5064644390; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:04:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from p54b0e6cf.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.176.230.207] helo=yukito) by mail.genesippc.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FwLPa-000P94-1k; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:06 +0000 From: "Matt Sealey" To: Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:04:07 -0500 Organization: Genesi Message-ID: <007601c69c5e$d33088b0$99dfdfdf@bakuhatsu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 In-Reply-To: <44A53AAC.1080002@freebsd.org> Thread-Index: AcacVEEZlAFoguE2RDmes9in3P+e2gACi8Yw Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 on Pegasos/ODW X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: matt@genesi-usa.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:26:54 -0000 Why isn't there an ISA bus attachment? We have an ISA bus on the Pegasos (Via 8231 southbridge) In all honesty the design of the system should be that while it there is some grunt work required, it is much the same as in Linux - when the driver doesn't exist on PPC you just symlink it from the i386 tree since all of the hardware already works in FreeBSD on a PC. I used to run FreeBSD 5.1 on a Via EPIA board, it had the exact same southbridge and peripheral chips and ran like a dream. Endianness notwithstanding it should be the same way. -- Matt Sealey Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Grehan [mailto:grehan@freebsd.org] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:52 AM > To: matt@genesi-usa.com > Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Pegasos/ODW > > > Building was a miserable failure. It went through and did the world > > and then the kernel failed first because driver "zs" wasn't > found (we > > commented out zs and put the 16550 uart in instead) and then it > > churned and puked on linking; > > The sio driver doesn't work on FreeBSD/ppc. It requires an > attachment to a bus somewhere (there's no ISA bus > attachment). I do have it sort-of working with the psim > simulator (with an 'iobus' attachment), but you've just hit > the fact that porting to a new platform with different > hardware than Macs doesn't come for free - there's always > going to be some development required. > > later, > > Peter. >