FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X

Thu May 14 15:48:57 UTC 2020

On May 14, 2020 3:32:13 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski at a9development.com> wrote:
>I'm wondering if anybody knows of work being done to port FreeBSD to the Layerscape platforms?
>
>I happen to have a SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K workstation, based on NXP's Layerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jessie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead. I have only minimal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at all with Crochet, but would like to learn. And while I cannot afford to donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds.

Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stuff on such a machine!! ;)

Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD.

Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generic devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt