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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:03:08 +0200
From:      Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
To:        Bear <jilingshu@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to install FreeBSD/ppc into a MPC8536 based board?
Message-ID:  <EA561073-3202-4CC9-9C44-3382917E80F8@semihalf.com>
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On 2010-09-26, at 14:48, Bear wrote:

> hi all,
> I am a newbie on embedded system. I got a development board which based
> on FreeScale MPC8536 chipset. Now I wanna install a FreeBSD on it. Could
> you tell me how to do? And which bootlaoder shold I choose? Can U-Boot
> work? Is there any resource on this? thx!
> I am very sorry that I put a so foolish question here, but I cannot find
> any resource on this.


What exactly is the development board you mention?

In principle, for FreeBSD to run on MPC85xx you need the following:

- U-Boot >= 1.3.2
- Enabled CONFIG_API option (to be able to run loader(8) on top of U-Boot)

Rafal




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