Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 22:12:07 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology> Cc: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X Message-ID: <20200516051207.GT4213@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> References: <seVuHXPQIJwJasZ3wb2s2t61PcRQY5fyhT6njAvxEJ47Sj02pDtHbh-6EyHOf5M22BZdd27q4wK-zMPfCkJ2FIhFNnhILGxOQPebbQ19-0M=@a9development.com> <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology>
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myfreeweb wrote this message on Thu, May 14, 2020 at 15:48 +0000: > > > On May 14, 2020 3:32:13 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com> wrote: > >I'm wondering if anybody knows of work being done to port FreeBSD to the Layerscape platforms? > > > >I happen to have a SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K workstation, based on NXP's Layerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jessie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead. I have only minimal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at all with Crochet, but would like to learn. And while I cannot afford to donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds. > > Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stuff on such a machine!! ;) > > Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD. > > Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generic devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt If this is the case, then the generic aarch64 images should boot on it... Not sure what will happen w/ the SATA though... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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