FreeBSD/powerpc on MPC5200

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2009-05-23, at 07:21, Andrew Turner wrote:

> 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.


Preliminary diff against 2009.04.06 HEAD is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/patches/powerpc/efika.diff

Comments or questions welcome. Some bits need to be streamlined so  
that all AIM/OF variations work together, and the code has to be  
rebased against up-to-date HEAD.

Rafal