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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:01 +0200
From:      Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
To:        Peter Czanik <pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200
Message-ID:  <C311B781-ED46-4F5B-A251-F6138A0FACBE@semihalf.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A0824E3.8070606@fang.fa.gau.hu>
References:  <35914876-0CFF-427B-8F80-B1BEEA5A7A18@semihalf.com> <4A0824E3.8070606@fang.fa.gau.hu>

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On 2009-05-11, at 15:15, Peter Czanik wrote:

> Rafal Jaworowski =EDrta:
>> I'd like to let people know that FreeBSD/powerpc is now able to boot
>> into single user on the Freescale MPC5200 system-on-chip (EFIKA
>> board). The environment is very simplistic: RAM disk based root fs, =20=

>> as
>> there's no peripherals drivers besides serial console and the built-=20=

>> in
>> PIC. See this log: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/logs/efika.log
> Wow, great news! Two questions:
> - are there any plans to support additional devices?

We don't have immediate plans for other devices drivers, but this =20
basic support will be merged into SVN, and it would be greatly welcome =20=

to see people help with remaining items.

> - is it possible to download the booted image from somewhere? (So I
> could boot my favorite OS on my favorite machine :-) )

Sorry for a delayed answer. You can try the minimalistic kernel=20
+ramdisk from here: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/misc/efika-kernel.gz
- unzip and put onto your TFTP host server
- execute from Efika SmartFirmware prompt:
boot eth:<your_TFTP_host_IP>,efika-kernel,<your_efika_IP>

E.g.: boot eth:10.0.0.204,efika-kernel,10.0.2.11

Rafal




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