Subject: Re: Adding a new 405GPr system
To: None <port-powerpc@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 02/13/2006 18:41:07
In message <mtu7j7zz2xr.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>, "Nathan J. Willia
ms" writes:
>seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>
>> Looking at the evbppc configuration files, it seems as though adding support
>> for a new system (the TAMS 3011 single-board computer) should just be a matter
>> of coming up with the right configuration file.
>> 
>> http://www.tamsinc.com/3011/index.htm
>> 
>> The 405GPr processor is supported, so I should be fairly close.
>> 
>> Any obvious pitfalls before I start trying to build a config for this?  :)
>
>You likely need a bit of board-specific glue, but you should be able
>to get pretty far cloning, say, the OpenBlocks support in
>evbppc/obs405.

Yup.  Looking around, it seems that the only RedBoot support is for ARM
systems, but I should be able to adapt it.  (The 3011 is a RedBoot system.)
It's gonna be interesting, anyway.

-s