Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:48:47 +0000 From: myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X Message-ID: <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <seVuHXPQIJwJasZ3wb2s2t61PcRQY5fyhT6njAvxEJ47Sj02pDtHbh-6EyHOf5M22BZdd27q4wK-zMPfCkJ2FIhFNnhILGxOQPebbQ19-0M=@a9development.com> References: <seVuHXPQIJwJasZ3wb2s2t61PcRQY5fyhT6njAvxEJ47Sj02pDtHbh-6EyHOf5M22BZdd27q4wK-zMPfCkJ2FIhFNnhILGxOQPebbQ19-0M=@a9development.com>
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On May 14, 2020 3:32:13 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan=2Ekotowski@a9development= =2Ecom> 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 La= yerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jes= sie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead=2E I have only min= imal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at= all with Crochet, but would like to learn=2E And while I cannot afford to = donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds=2E Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stu= ff on such a machine!! ;) Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD=2E Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generi= c devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github=2Ecom/SolidRun/edk2-platfo= rms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt
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