Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:33:22 -0700 From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> To: Neelkanth Natu <neelnatu@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/mips booting on Sibyte 1250 Message-ID: <4A480BD2.8010700@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <58821.29900.qm@web34405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <58821.29900.qm@web34405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Neelkanth Natu wrote:
> Hi Oleksandr,
>
> I'll try out your patch and let you know how it goes.
>
> Do you have anything in particular that you will be working on in the
> platform-independent part? I could help if needed.
>
I just tried to build several ports and see if it's going to
succeed. As a result
bug in pmap_qenter was fixed and threads work in FreeBSD/mips now. So far
I managed to build python and perl(with system malloc) and they seem
to work. More thorough testing required though.
> best
> Neel
>
> --- On Fri, 6/26/09, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
>> From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/mips booting on Sibyte 1250
>> To: "Neelkanth Natu" <neelnatu@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org, "Alexandr Rybalko" <ray@dlink.ua>
>> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 2:14 PM
>> Neelkanth Natu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Warner,
>>>
>>> I have attached the diffs against -current at revision
>>>
>> 194280.
>>
>>> There are some changes in the diff that are unrelated
>>>
>> to the sibyte
>>
>>> work and probably should be committed separately.
>>>
>>> I can provide more information about changes to
>>>
>> specific files if necessary.
>> Thanks for contribution. I'm trying to make
>> platform-independent
>> part of mips/ tree and userland stable and once it's done
>> more time
>> will be available for adding new platforms (I hope it will
>> be soon
>> enough) :)
>> Meanwhile I'd appreciate if you test attached
>> patch for busdma
>> with your hardware. This implementation has been
>> shamelessly ripped
>> from arm code tree and should handle alignment/boundaries
>> limitations
>> properly. If possible, test with several DMA-enabled
>> devices working
>> simultaneously. Thanks.
>>
>> Patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/busdma.diff
>>
>>
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