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On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:24:02 -0500
Matthew Alton <matthew.alton@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, everybody.  Is there any work underway to port FreeBSD to the ARM
> Cortex A-50 series 64-bit CPUs?  I would like to help with this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

There is not support for AArch64 yet. I have started looking at it,
however this is still in the early stages as not all required
documentation was available from ARM, for example how to initialise the
MMU. I can figure out some of this from Linux but not the meaning of
some of the magic numbers they used.

Andrew