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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2003 15:58:26 -0500
From:      "Aron J. Silverton" <ajs@labs.mot.com>
To:        <pcasidy@casidy.com>, <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Porting to Compact PCI
Message-ID:  <4D87884B6A6D4E438A8592BCC9C85DCA079C318B@il02exm06.corp.mot.com>
In-Reply-To: <200305302041.h4UKfX2i005750@gueway.home>

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owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org wrote:
> On 26 May, Silverton Aron-C1710C wrote:
>> There has been a lot of talk lately about porting to other boards, so
>> I
> <snip>
>> is what needs to be done at a very high level:
>>=20
>> 1.  Boot Linux using U-Boot on this board.  This will show that
>> U-Boot is working well enough with this board to move onto FreeBSD
>> specific stuff. There should be pretty good support for this board
>> from Montavista and Linux-PPC so this step should be largely U-Boot
>> centric without any Linux hacking.=20
>>=20
>=20
> Where to find docs about U-Boot? What's the starting point? Google
> search leads me to Linux stuff.=20
>=20

U-Boot is on sourceforge at, http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot.  =
U-Boot
is capable of working with any OS so long as one is willing to do the
necessary porting.  Most of what has been done so far is oriented =
towards
booting Linux kernels.

> Thanks
>=20
> Phil.
>=20

Aron



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