What is the state of FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug?

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2010-02-23, at 15:55, Matthias Rampke wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 15:21, Rafal Jaworowski <raj at semihalf.com> wrote:
> 
>> - the above applies to both 8-STABLE and HEAD
>> 
> 
> So in terms of SheevaPlug-support, there is no reason not to use 8-STABLE?

It's supposed to work on 8-STABLE.

> Netbooting is not really a (permanent) solution for me, since if I had
> a NFS server permanently on, I'd have no need for a SheevaPlug ...
> I'll see what I can get to USB-wise.
> 
> Rafal: is the SD driver available as a patch, as long as it's not in
> the main tree? Being able to boot from SD cards would be an almost
> ideal solution, second only to internal flash (which is still way off
> due to lack of a NAND filesystem, I know).

There isn't ready to apply patch, sorry; while the SD/MMC driver itself is a pretty self-contained piece of code (http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/misc/mv_sdio.c), there are extensions and updates required to the GPIO code to make it work (some MMC lines go through the GPIO, we need to handle debouncing for presence detect signals and so on); we have other local GPIO modifications, and this is where some work is required to distill, clean up and reintagrate with HEAD.

Keep nagging me about it and I'll finally complete the integration :-)

Rafal