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Get FreeBSD working on EFIKA

in category Operating Systems
proposed by Andrew Turner on 20th November 2006 (accepted on 6th December 2006)

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posted by Andrew Turner on 22nd January 2007

I was working on getting the Efika to boot FreeBSD before Christmas. During January I have been investigating why the kernel is panicking during boot and looking at porting a patch from NetBSD regarding how OpenFirmware is called.

The NetBSD patch is going to be difficult as the NetBSD code is in assembly where the FreeBSD code is in C. There is also a problem where values passed from FreeBSD to OpenFirmware can be virtual addresses where the Efika's firmware runs in real mode.

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