freebsd on mips64

[Jerry Toung]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:14 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> FreeBSD also runs on a Cavium OCTEON processor.  However, the code to
> do that is in limbo at the moment due to a last minute issue that came
> up with it.  I'm sure the issue will be resolved in short order, but
> until then, it only works in my office at home...


do you mind sharing that code? it's going to be particularly relevant to me
as I make progress.

>
>
> To get up to speed on the port, I'd recommend buying the 'See Mips
> Run, 2nd Edition.'  This is a very good book, despite having Linux in
> the subtitle....


I will purchase that book then

>
> I'd grab the current CVS tree.  It is presently missing the compilers,
> which we should make some patches for soon.
>
>
> ok. I checked out FreeBSD/mips from HEAD yesterday and overwrote my local
copy of sys/mips with that one. I also overwrote my local copy of
sys/conf/files.mips with the one from CVS, then ran:
make TARGET_ARCH=mips kernel-toolchain
make TARGET_ARCH=mips NO_MODULES=yes MIPS_LITTLE_ENDIAN=yes buildkernel
KERNCONF=MALTA

buildkernel exit with 'unknown option for SOFTFLOAT and ISA_MIPS32'. Fine, I
comment them out althought I don't think I should, then buildkernel exit
with error:

cc: /usr/home/jtoung/MIPS/src/sys/mips/mips/mips_subr.c: No such file or
directory
mkdep: compile fail

so the file mips_subr.c is missing. My cross-compiling machine runs 6.2
STABLE by the way.

 Please someone advise on SOFTFLOAT, ISA_MIPS32 and mips_subr.c

Thank you,
Jerry