Porting FreeBSD to the Neo1973 (arm920t)

[Rafal Jaworowski]

Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> Do you plan to submit these patches to the u-boot ML? Or directly to
> Wolfgang Denk? I knows he's very interested in getting some *BSD
> support into u-boot. Or maybe you've already done that?
> 

It will be submitted, although not in its present form. The reason that 
current approach [although functional] is not pushed to mainline is that 
it's based on U-Boot's jumptable concept, which has drawbacks: it's 
strongly dependent on the given arch and platform, and is too simple to 
serve real API purposes. In order to have a more independent and 
extensible interface I came up with a generic new API (a la syscall 
mechanism). It's still prototype, but working (somewhat limited in 
functionality); loader(8) for FreeBSD/e500 is going to be its first 
consumer, and once I have these two initially integrated, I'll send this 
new API for review etc.

Anyway, I already have a custodian repo for the FreeBSD/U-Boot support 
and all changes will go there one day: 
http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot/u-boot-freebsd.git;a=summary

Rafal