Re: How to enter SOC Porting?

From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_skunkwerks.at>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:21:51 UTC
On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, at 22:54, Alek Da man wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to enter SOC Porting but upon asking have gotten very abstract 
> material and am still not able to understand how it is done.
>
> I'm in search of a material or guide with end to end "handholding" on 
> how it's done. Any recommendations?
>
> //
> Alek

Welcome Alek.

manu@ did a great talk on porting to a new board about 6 years ago:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB5NknHWbk
- https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/vadot-FreeBSD_ARM32_ARM64_Porting_to_a_new_board.files/vadot-FreeBSD_ARM32_ARM64_Porting_to_a_new_board.pdf

Some of his earlier work may also still be useful

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhPfW9HdyA
- https://www.bidouilliste.com/blog/2015/11/27/Porting-FreeBSD-to-a-new-ARM-Board-Part-1/tweb

There is a reasonably active IRC channel on EFnet, called #bsdmips
good for a chat.

A+
Dave