Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:15:44 +0200 From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Cc: Michal Mazur <arg@semihalf.com>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200 Message-ID: <D94F0BDA-EEF4-4A74-AB82-A18B86A92241@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <20090523172128.2e0a3f2b@fubar.geek.nz> References: <35914876-0CFF-427B-8F80-B1BEEA5A7A18@semihalf.com> <4A0824E3.8070606@fang.fa.gau.hu> <C311B781-ED46-4F5B-A251-F6138A0FACBE@semihalf.com> <20090523172128.2e0a3f2b@fubar.geek.nz>
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On 2009-05-23, at 07:21, Andrew Turner wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:01 +0200 > Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> wrote: >> >> 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, as >>>> there's no peripherals drivers besides serial console and the >>>> built- 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 >> basic support will be merged into SVN, and it would be greatly >> welcome to see people help with remaining items. > Is there a patch available? I would like to get back to working on the > EFIKA. Preliminary diff against 2009.04.06 HEAD is here: = http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/patches/powerpc/efika.diff Comments or questions welcome. Some bits need to be streamlined so =20 that all AIM/OF variations work together, and the code has to be =20 rebased against up-to-date HEAD. Rafal
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