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From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
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Subject: Re: Howto boot FreeBSD on MPC8540EVAL
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Jacques Fourie wrote:
> 
> For the benefit of the list I'll describe how I got FreeBSD current to
> boot on a MPC8540EVAL platform. This basically consisted of installing
> a newer version of u-boot onto the flash and some minor kernel
> modifications (thanks for all the help Rafal).
> 

Thanks for the howto, Jacques. I'm glad it worked on your board; I was
planning :) to put together the 85xx installation notes on www/wiki one day,
so when it happens I'll merge your instructions too.

Rafal