FreeBSD on e500mc 36bit physical addressing

Rafal Jaworowski raj at semihalf.com
Thu Sep 6 19:39:34 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-04, at 18:14, Aleksey Fedorov wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Does FreeBSD support 36bit physical addressing?
> I have P4080 board with 4G RAM.
> Trying to boot using ubldr I hit into zero size of MR_ATTR_DRAM memory
> region in ubldr ub_get_sys_info() because u64 value in u-boot does not fit
> into unsigned long of mem_region.size. Temporary fix this by
> decrementing size of DRAM in u-boot.
> Now ubldr load kernel from NFS and after  "Kernel entry at
> 0x1001000..."  I have nothing.
> I suppose current kernel implementation does not support 36bit
> addressing and hang during initial configuration.

Hi Aleksey,
FreeBSD/powerpc does not support the 36-bit physical addr space for Book-E PowerPC as of yet.

Rafal



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