FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2009-05-11, at 15:15, Peter Czanik wrote:

> Rafal Jaworowski írta:
>> I'd like to let people know that FreeBSD/powerpc is now able to boot
>> into single user on the Freescale MPC5200 system-on-chip (EFIKA
>> board). The environment is very simplistic: RAM disk based root fs,  
>> as
>> there's no peripherals drivers besides serial console and the built- 
>> in
>> PIC. See this log: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/logs/efika.log
> Wow, great news! Two questions:
> - are there any plans to support additional devices?

We don't have immediate plans for other devices drivers, but this  
basic support will be merged into SVN, and it would be greatly welcome  
to see people help with remaining items.

> - is it possible to download the booted image from somewhere? (So I
> could boot my favorite OS on my favorite machine :-) )

Sorry for a delayed answer. You can try the minimalistic kernel 
+ramdisk from here: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/misc/efika-kernel.gz
- unzip and put onto your TFTP host server
- execute from Efika SmartFirmware prompt:
boot eth:<your_TFTP_host_IP>,efika-kernel,<your_efika_IP>

E.g.: boot eth:10.0.0.204,efika-kernel,10.0.2.11

Rafal