FreeBSD/mips booting on Sibyte 1250

Neelkanth Natu neelnatu at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 27 08:01:15 UTC 2009


Hi Oleksandr,

I'll try out your patch and let you know how it goes.

Do you have anything in particular that you will be working on in the
platform-independent part? I could help if needed.

best
Neel

--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at freebsd.org> wrote:

> From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/mips booting on Sibyte 1250
> To: "Neelkanth Natu" <neelnatu at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-mips at freebsd.org, "Alexandr Rybalko" <ray at dlink.ua>
> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 2:14 PM
> Neelkanth Natu wrote:
> > Hi Warner,
> > 
> > I have attached the diffs against -current at revision
> 194280.
> > 
> > There are some changes in the diff that are unrelated
> to the sibyte
> > work and probably should be committed separately.
> > 
> > I can provide more information about changes to
> specific files if necessary.
>     Thanks for contribution. I'm trying to make
> platform-independent
> part of mips/ tree and userland stable and once it's done
> more time
> will be available for adding new platforms (I hope it will
> be soon
> enough) :)
>     Meanwhile I'd appreciate if you test attached
> patch for busdma
> with your hardware. This implementation has been
> shamelessly ripped
> from arm code tree and should handle alignment/boundaries
> limitations
> properly. If possible, test with several DMA-enabled
> devices working
> simultaneously. Thanks.
> 
> Patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/busdma.diff
> 


      


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