From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 03:30:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB7116A400 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 03:30:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089D113C447 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 03:30:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BFD21F2B0 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 23:32:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 09 May 2007 23:30:35 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: JiLUsvg0nDbhCo1/nUmU/xfz3CIpy6DxdHIbkuH+pJw4 1178767835 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF1E4342 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 23:30:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <464291D7.7060603@incunabulum.net> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 04:30:31 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org References: <463F4F7D.6070001@incunabulum.net> <463FD2EB.7040504@incunabulum.net> <46412370.20002@incunabulum.net> <4641F795.9030309@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <4641F795.9030309@incunabulum.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Broadcom MIPS progress X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 03:30:35 -0000 Things are now at a stage where the SiBa bus attachment stuff works, irq allocation is propagated to nexus (because SiBa interrupts appear to map 1:1 on MIPS ones). I am currently trying to get the PCI host bridge working. The WGT634U ships with an Atheros 5213 in its MiniPCI slot so this should be interesting. The Sentry5 is a good way to get the SiBa support matured to a point where we can think about targetting smaller systems based on chips such as the Broadcom 4702 and 4710. One thing we really need assistance with is a flash filesystem and drivers for non-MMC flash memory. It would be great if someone could step up to doing this -- FreeBSD lacks a framework such as Linux has for this (MTD). My overall objective for this project is to get the code to a point where it will boot single-user and mount root via NFS using the SiBa Ethernet cores present on the bus, most likely using the bfe(4) driver. Regards, BMS