New architecture support

Aditya Godbole aag.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 06:37:58 UTC 2006


On 6/27/06, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > If I have to add support for a new architecture, how do I start?
>
> Well, you'll need a toolchain. :)  Then you can start working on building
> a minimal kernel filling in missing bits in sys/<arch> as you go.

Is there any documentation regarding the interface between the machine
independant and machine dependant parts of the kernel. Also what
functionality does the machine independant part expect to be in place?

-aditya


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