Booting FreeBSD on MPC8540 eval board

[Rafal Jaworowski]

Jacques Fourie wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get FreeBSD current (checked out the sources yesterday)
> to boot on a Freescale MPC8540 evaluation board. After installing a
> u-boot snapshot that has the u-boot API used by FreeBSD's ubldr I can
> load a FreeBSD kernel but the last message I see on the console is
> "Kernel entry at 0x1000100 ...". I have used the default MPC85XX
> kernel configuration file when compiling the FreeBSD kernel. For
> u-boot I added CONFIG_API and CFG_CMD_ELF to
> include/configs/MPC8540EVAL.h
> 
> Unfortunately my debugging setup is not as complete as I would like it
> to be - struggling to get the CodeWarrior USB Tap working - so
> debugging this problem is a bit difficult at the moment. Is the kernel
> console support working for this platform?
> 

Before booting the kernel you need to set your console address in FreeBSD
loader. I'm not sure which UART port is actually used on the MC8540EVAL, but
one of the following should work:

set hw.uart.console=mm:0xfef04500
set hw.uart.console=mm:0xfef04600

Rafal