FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X

[John-Mark Gurney]

myfreeweb wrote this message on Thu, May 14, 2020 at 15:48 +0000:
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> On May 14, 2020 3:32:13 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski at a9development.com> wrote:
> >I'm wondering if anybody knows of work being done to port FreeBSD to the Layerscape platforms?
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> >I happen to have a SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K workstation, based on NXP's Layerscape LX2160A, next to my desk running a custom-multistrapped Debian Jessie build, but would love to get FreeBSD running instead. I have only minimal experience working down in BSD driver/kernel land and no experience at all with Crochet, but would like to learn. And while I cannot afford to donate the actual hardware I'm happy to work with others to test builds.
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> Do not even think about crochet or device trees or any of the embedded stuff on such a machine!! ;)
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> Just use the latest UEFI firmware in ACPI mode to boot generic FreeBSD.
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> Looking at their ACPI tables, they do finally have PCIe and USB3 as generic devices, though oddly not SATA: https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/tree/master-lx2160a/Silicon/NXP/LX2160A/AcpiTables/Dsdt

If this is the case, then the generic aarch64 images should boot on
it...  Not sure what will happen w/ the SATA though...

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