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Main goal of the project: To port FreeBSD to Efika, an e300 based evaluation board.

Main steps to be taken:

• overview of the hardware, gathering and revieving documentation,
• review of existing ports on similar architecture,
• comparison and trial merge of A. Turner's code with the CURRENT,
• writing basic driver - an interrupt controller,
• adding some basic peripherials: modelling the newbus hierarchy model of integrated devices, such as internal bus, UART,
• writing device drivers for on-chip peripherials,

(I remind all about my blog where I post comments on the project: http://bitbay.blogspot.com/)

After having done that it is expected to be able to operate in a single user mode.

Recently, I've been playing with the board in our lab in order to configure it. Here's the snaphot of the Efika OF booting:

And finally, a success: efika boots FreeBSD after merging A. Turner's code with the CURRENT. The code required manual patching due to some changes in the src layout. Here's a proof :) :

I've managed to fire the KDB, so I have the access to the running kernel and verbose boot thanks to the bootverbose:

At the moment kernel stops where devices are attached. Among them, there should be a PIC driver, which is missing…

Roadmap and timetable