FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200

Andrew Turner andrew at fubar.geek.nz
Sat May 23 05:41:36 UTC 2009


On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:01 +0200
Rafal Jaworowski <raj at semihalf.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 there a patch available? I would like to get back to working on the
EFIKA.

Andrew


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