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This is precisely as far as I have managed to get.  Please let me know if
there is any preliminary work I can do for the project before ARM releases
the specs.

Thanks.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> wrote:

> 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
>



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