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From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
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Subject: Re: Recipe for Efika / SAM440?
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Hi Daan,

On 2009-04-14, at 13:02, Daan Vreeken wrote:

> Since a couple of weeks I have a SAM440 and an Efika board. I tried to
> cross-compile a kernel and boot it on the Efika, but the console  
> simply goes
> silent after loading the kernel. (I have yet to try the SAM440.)
> Before I spend lots of time finding out the obvious, is there a  
> document
> anywhere on how to get -Current running on these two boards?
> Or can anyone share their favourite recipe for compiling a kernel  
> and getting
> it to boot for one of these boards?

FreeBSD as you can find in SVN at the moment will not work on neither  
of these. As we talked earlier, there's work being done on getting  
FreeBSD to work both of the involved machines (MPC5200 and  
PPC440/460), but the support is preliminary and the code not ready for  
merging with the tree.

Rafal