Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/4] kconfig: Add a FREEBSD option

Hello Simon,

On 21-01-17 04:51, Simon Glass wrote:

Hi,

On 17 January 2017 at 08:50, Emmanuel Vadot manu@bidouilliste.com wrote:

...

Add a FreeBSD option that enable the API and enable the data cache command as it is needed to boot the FreeBSD loader.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot manu@bidouilliste.com

common/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig index a04ee1084f..b719ccd888 100644 --- a/common/Kconfig +++ b/common/Kconfig @@ -389,4 +389,13 @@ config DISPLAY_BOARDINFO when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called to do this.

+config FREEBSD

•   bool "Enable FreeBSD boot"
  

•   select API
  

•   select CMD_CACHE
  

•   default n
  

•   help
  

•     This option adds boot configuration that can run the FreeBSD
  

•     loader.
  

What is the FreeBSD loader?

see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader(8). Which is rather nice, FreeBSD uses the same loader independent of arch, so booting the previous kernel / kernel module stuff and rescue things are roughly the same on i386, amd64 and arm. The loader communicates with u-boot by its api.

Do you mean that U-Boot can boot FreeBSD?

Hence he meant what he wrote. Be able to run the FreeBSD _loader_. The FreeBSD loader will take care of booting FreeBSD.

Regards, Jeroen