This port failed to gain traction and probably only a couple Wii consoles
ran FreeBSD all the way to single user mode with an md(4). IPC
support was never implemented, so it was impossible to use any peripheral
Any further development, if any, will happen at https://github.com/rpaulo/wii.
Discussed with: nathanw (a long time ago), jhibbits
Requirements) systems from the projects/pseries branch. This in principle
includes all IBM POWER hardware released in the last 15 years with the
exception of POWER3-based systems when run in 64-bit mode. The main
development target, however, has been the PAPR logical partition support
that is the default target in KVM on POWER and QEMU -- mileage may vary
on actual hardware at present. Much of the heavy lifting here was done
by Andreas Tobler.
Approved by: re (kib)
reach single user mode using a memory disk device as the file system.
This port includes the framebuffer driver, the PIC driver, a platform
driver and the GPIO driver. The IPC driver (to talk to IOS kernels) is
not yet written but there's a placeholder for it.
There are still some MMU problems and to get a working system you need to
patch locore32.S. Since we haven't found the best way yet to address that
problem, we're not committing those changes yet. The problem is related to
the different BAT layout on the Wii and to the fact that the Homebrew
loader doesn't clean up the special registers (including the 8 BATs)
before passing control to us.
You'll need a Wii with Homebrew loader and a TV that can do NTSC (for now).
Submitted by: Margarida Gouveia
implementation specific vs. the common architecture definition.
Bring PPC4XX defines (PSL, SPR, TLB). Note the new definitions under
BOOKE_PPC4XX are not used in the code yet.
This change set is not supposed to affect existing E500 support, it's just
another reorg step before bringing support for E500mc, E5500 and PPC465.
Obtained from: AppliedMicro, Freescale, Semihalf
available on firmwares 3.15 and earlier.
Caveats: Support for the internal SATA controller is currently missing,
as is support for framebuffer resolutions other than 720x480. These
deficiencies will be remedied soon.
Special thanks to Peter Grehan for providing the hardware that made this
port possible, and thanks to Geoff Levand of Sony Computer Entertainment
for advice on the LV1 hypervisor.
Kernel sources for 64-bit PowerPC, along with build-system changes to keep
32-bit kernels compiling (build system changes for 64-bit kernels are
coming later). Existing 32-bit PowerPC kernel configurations must be
updated after this change to specify their architecture.
The PQ3 is a high performance integrated communications processing system
based on the e500 core, which is an embedded RISC processor that implements
the 32-bit Book E definition of the PowerPC architecture. For details refer
to: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8555E
This port was tested and successfully run on the following members of the PQ3
family: MPC8533, MPC8541, MPC8548, MPC8555.
The following major integrated peripherals are supported:
* On-chip peripherals bus
* OpenPIC interrupt controller
* UART
* Ethernet (TSEC)
* Host/PCI bridge
* QUICC engine (SCC functionality)
This commit brings the main functionality and will be followed by individual
drivers that are logically separate from this base.
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
Obtained from: Juniper, Semihalf
MFp4: e500
processors (it's the PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture).
AIM designates the processors made by the Apple-IBM-Motorola
alliance and those we typically support.
While here, remove the NetBSD option IPKDB. It's not an option
used by us. Also, PPC_HAVE_FPU is not used by us either. Remove
that too.
Obtained from: Juniper, Semihalf
