FreeBSD/mips booting on Sibyte 1250

Oleksandr Tymoshenko gonzo at bluezbox.com
Mon Jun 29 00:51:51 UTC 2009


Neelkanth Natu wrote:
> 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.
>   
    I just tried to build several ports and see if it's going to 
succeed. As a result
bug in pmap_qenter was fixed and threads work in FreeBSD/mips now.  So far
I managed to build python and perl(with system malloc) and they seem
to work. More thorough testing required though.
   
> 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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