From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 14:59:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D54E1065703 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from loerner@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF24C8FC0A for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24110 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jul 2010 14:59:52 -0000 Received: from 212.185.199.2 by www041.gmx.net with HTTP; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:59:49 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:59:49 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_L=F6rner=22?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20100707145949.234050@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20100706121538.193960@gmx.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar X-Authenticated: #60932973 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/1QUd1SKn1Ffg+xlRS3NB5iuijmtnvEFwTKbwnZA 1iJeHpm4peUYsRU2uAgotnFWosHfvkfedyrQ== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: MfNGbAk6eSEqTwygynch/zB+IGRvbwCU X-FuHaFi: 0.48999999999999999 Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:59:54 -0000 -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:18:14 -0700 > Von: Marcel Moolenaar > An: "Marc Lörner" > CC: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org > Betreff: Re: > > On Jul 6, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Marc Lörner wrote: > > > Hello list, Marcel! > > As I already told you my company has bought an SGI-atlix 450. > > As this testsystem is now not used anymore by anyone in the foreseeable > future, I got the admission to try FreeBSD on it. > > > > So what can I do to help bringing/running FreeBSD on this machine? > > What are the first steps to take, because I can vaguely remember that > install won't work out of the box from the released CD-images? > > > > @Marcel: Have you made some progress on FreeBSD, Numa and your Altix? > > Yes, somewhat. The major blocker is a lack of interrupt support, > because the Altix doesn't have SAPICs. But before I can work on > interrupt support I need a driver that doesn't fail to allocate > DMA memory. This may need support for the I/O MMU. If so, that > I/O MMU support is the first blocker to resolve. > > Other than that, FreeBSD boots with the changes (and kluges) I > have on the altix branch. > > If you want to see if and how well FreeBSD boots on the 450, you > need to checkout svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/altix, > build a kernel using the ALTIX configuration and boot that under > EFI. You also need to build a loader from that branch, because > the standard loader won't work. Devices won't attach, but you > should find all hardware and be asked for the root mount point. > Thanks Marcel for describing the momentarily state of work done for supporting altix. In the next few days I will give your code a try! Regards, Marc Loerner -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01