Porting to Compact PCI

[Aron J. Silverton]

owner-freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org wrote:
> On 26 May, Silverton Aron-C1710C wrote:
>> There has been a lot of talk lately about porting to other boards, so
>> I
> <snip>
>> is what needs to be done at a very high level:
>> 
>> 1.  Boot Linux using U-Boot on this board.  This will show that
>> U-Boot is working well enough with this board to move onto FreeBSD
>> specific stuff. There should be pretty good support for this board
>> from Montavista and Linux-PPC so this step should be largely U-Boot
>> centric without any Linux hacking. 
>> 
> 
> Where to find docs about U-Boot? What's the starting point? Google
> search leads me to Linux stuff. 
> 

U-Boot is on sourceforge at, http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot.  U-Boot
is capable of working with any OS so long as one is willing to do the
necessary porting.  Most of what has been done so far is oriented towards
booting Linux kernels.

> Thanks
> 
> Phil.
> 

Aron