Porting FreeBSD to PPC

[Won De Erick]

Hi Rafal,

Thanks for the tip. How the configuration on the board? I would like to know also the different things that I must do to properly configure the FPGA. Are the Xilinx integrated IPs in the XPS enough for this matter?

Thanks,

Won


----- Original Message ----
From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj at semihalf.com>
To: Won De Erick <won.derick at yahoo.com>
Cc: grehan at freebsd.org; freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:31:21 PM
Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to PPC

Won De Erick wrote:
> thanks. Is U-boot an open source? When porting, what are the things that I need to know. I can't see detailed tutorials on the internet.
> Hope for your support!

I had a look and it seems U-Boot doesn't have a dedicated configuration for
the ML403 board yet, although some people mentioned a successful attempts to
use the one for ML300.

You basically need to download U-Boot and first make it run on the ML403
(which might require some work on its own). After this initial stage, enable
U-Boot API (add #define CONFIG_API to the board's config) and have FreeBSD
loader run on top of U-Boot; only after this the proper kernel work would start..

Rafal