svn commit: r48592 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 12 22:17:17 UTC 2016

Author: wblock
Date: Tue Apr 12 22:17:16 2016
New Revision: 48592
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48592

Log:
  Add AmigaOne report from Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org>.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 22:12:35 2016	(r48591)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 22:17:16 2016	(r48592)
@@ -1069,4 +1069,95 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>AmigaOne X5000 support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Justin</given>
+	  <common>Hibbits</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jhibbits at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.amigaos.net/hardware/133/amigaone-x5000" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>A continuation of the Book-E QorIQ support enhancements by
+	Semihalf dating back to 2012.</p>
+
+      <p>The AmigaOne X5000 series of AmigaOS compatible systems uses
+	the Freescale QorIQ series of SoCs for a desktop-class form
+	factor.  The work here entails adding support for the e5500
+	core itself, in addition to support for the SoC
+	peripherals.</p>
+
+      <p>Currently most code is checked in to enable basic support:
+	dTSEC (ethernet), core support (e500mc, e5500).  Additionally,
+	as part of this, rman, the kernel resource manager, was
+	enhanced to use uintmax_t for resources.  This allows devices
+	to be physically above the 4GB boundary on 32-bit systems.
+	With a statically compiled device tree, it boots to multiuser
+	mode, with nfsroot, and can be used as normal (serial and ssh
+	logins once configured).</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Alex Perez (Inertial Computing)
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>eSDHC driver.  Work has been started on this, hijacking the
+	  imx_sdhc.c from Ian Lepore, but there are still bugs:
+	  missing DMA from the iMX driver, and odd timeouts after the
+	  system starts up.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>SATA support.  There is a WIP driver for the SATA
+	  controller, but it's currently very slow, about 11MB/s on a
+	  SATA 2 link.  It currently relies on a 10ms delay on every
+	  SATA transaction, in order for it to be even somewhat
+	  stable.  Without this delay, the disk scan never works and I
+	  haven't yet figured out why.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Local console (VGA) support.  It currently boots with a
+	  serial console.  vgapci0 is seen if there's a PCIe graphics
+	  card, but vt(4) doesn't attach to it yet.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>64-bit support.  The CPU on the board is a P5020, a 64-bit
+	  e5500 dual-core SoC.  Currently, booke support in FreeBSD is
+	  32-bit only.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>SMP.  SMP support on Book-E hardware is currently
+	  broken.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>U-boot support.  Currently this uses a compiled-in device
+	  tree, but it would be preferred for it to use the device
+	  tree provided by u-boot, or at least the Linux-compatible
+	  device tree.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>More work is needed on the DPAA front (Datapath
+	  Acceleration Architecture) to improve the ethernet driver,
+	  and utilize the SEC engine for crypto, <tt>random(4)</tt>,
+	  and IPSec.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
