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Efika 5200B Project
Provide good support for the EFIKA in NetBSDin category Operating Systems
proposed by avincent on 21st November 2006 (accepted on 21st November 2006)
Project Summary
I don\'t call this project \"port NetBSD\" because I think NetBSD/ofppc should run almost directly on the EFIKA, but I would like to provide native drivers for the MPC5200B peripherals so that NetBSD runs as a first-class operating system on the EFIKA.It\'s hard without trying to know what it will take to get \"first-class\" support, but I will strive towards this goal whatever needs improving.
I am a NetBSD developer, author of the PCMCIA support for Amiga\'s in NetBSD, I worked on the Compaq T1500 thinclient to netboot NetBSD on it, I also fixed mozilla when it was broken on NetBSD/macppc, and fixed a tricky MMU-related bug in PPC OEA-based NetBSD ports. Less related, I am the person responsible for nvi (the text editor) in NetBSD. Of course, as all NetBSD developers, I have done various little things here and there for the project.
Project Blog Entries
Today I added basic support for accessing the RTAS.
My Efika now reads the time-of-day clock. The line in the dmesg looks like this:
rtas0 at mainbus0 (rtas): version 1, entry @pa 0x1b98000
I committed most of what is required to boot the Efika to the NetBSD repository.
Here is the output from a -current netbsd kernel which was almost untouched (I mostly added the two lines from Jorge Acereda's patch for the Pegasos which disable the MMU when calling to the OF). Now, the problem is that the kernel sends every packet through ofnet0 at a very low rate, so I was never patient enough to wait for the system to really come up, and I don't know if it would.
NetBSD does not yet support the "bplan,EFIKA5K2".
Using generic OpenFirmware driver support.
Loaded initial symtab at 0x5d08b0, strtab at 0x5eab5c, # entries 6619
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 4.99.7 (EFIKA) #14: Wed Jan 3 00:52:58 CET 2007
vincent@xxx:.../src/sys/arch/ofppc/compile/EFIKA
total memory = 128 MB
avail memory = 100 MB
bootpath /builtin@F0000000/ethernet@F0003000/netbsd
cbootpath /builtin@F0000000/ethernet@F0003000
mainbus0 (root): bplan,EFIKA5K2
cpu0 at mainbus0 (PowerPC,G2): Version 0x8082 (Revision 0x2014), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0 c000<ICE,DCE>, powersave: -1
rtas at mainbus0 not configured
failsafe at mainbus0 not configured
ofbus0 at mainbus0 (builtin@F0000000)
pic@F0000500 at ofbus0 not configured
bestcomm@F0001200 at ofbus0 not configured
sram@F0008000 at ofbus0 not configured
ofbus1 at ofbus0 (ata@F0003A00)
bestcomm-task at ofbus1 not configured
usb@F0001000 at ofbus0 not configured
ofnet0 at ofbus0 (ethernet@F0003000): address x:x:x:x:x:x
ofbus2 at ofbus0 (sound@F0002200)
bestcomm-rxtask at ofbus2 not configured
bestcomm-txtask at ofbus2 not configured
ofcons0 at ofbus0 (serial@F0002000)
ofbus3 at ofbus0 (pcidma@F0003800)
bestcomm-txtask at ofbus3 not configured
pci@80000000 at mainbus0 not configured
boot device: <unknown>
root device: ofnet0
dump device:
file system (default generic): nfs
root on ofnet0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: x.x.x.x
nfs_boot: my_domain=xxx
nfs_boot: my_addr=x.x.x.x
nfs_boot: my_mask=x.x.x.x
nfs_boot: gateway=x.x.x.x
WARNING: using filesystem time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!