Cortex A50 Series?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu May 30 13:57:50 UTC 2013


On May 30, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:24:02 -0500
> Matthew Alton <matthew.alton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, everybody.  Is there any work underway to port FreeBSD to the ARM
>> Cortex A-50 series 64-bit CPUs?  I would like to help with this.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> 
> There is not support for AArch64 yet. I have started looking at it,
> however this is still in the early stages as not all required
> documentation was available from ARM, for example how to initialise the
> MMU. I can figure out some of this from Linux but not the meaning of
> some of the magic numbers they used.

There's also a port being done by Semihalf that's under NDA with access to simulators and such until certain chips ship, I've been told.

Warner



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