Porting FreeBSD to PPC

[Won De Erick]

Hi Peter,

thanks. Is U-boot an open source? When porting, what are the things that I need to know. I can't see detailed tutorials on the internet.
Hope for your support!

Won


----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
To: Won De Erick <won.derick at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 1:36:46 AM
Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to PPC

Hi,

> I want to port FreeBSD using the embedded PPC in Xilinx Virtex4 ML403 board.
> Can anybody point me to the right path?? 

  It's going to take a lot of work

    - CPU support for the embedded 405 ppc core. This isn't in FreeBSD yet.
    - drivers for the on-chip peripherals

> I want to know how the bootloader should also be.

  Looks like u-boot supports the ml403, and with u-boot now supporting 
FreeBSD, that should be the place to start.

later,

Peter.