Re: Cromwell patches for FreeBSD support

Congratulations.

Rink Springer wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>Over the past week, I have been working to get FreeBSD working on an
>XBox. This has been successful, and it works like a charm [1]. Patches
>will be released tomorrow, for 5.4-RELEASE and hopefully 6.0-BETA, along
>with dmesg(8) output and such.
>
>However, in order to successfully boot FreeBSD using Cromwell (the XBox
>I used for the project had a Cromwell BIOS), severnal modifications were
>required so Cromwell would accept the FreeBSD kernel and successfully
>boot it. With these patches, Cromwell can successfully etherboot a FreeBSD
>kernel, as well as load one from CD-ROM. Loading from harddisk hasn't been
>tried yet. These modifications can be found at
>http://rink.nu/downloads/xbox-patches/cromwell-with-bsd-support.diff
>
>A very small patch was also needed to be able to build Cromwell on a
>FreeBSD machine, this patch can be found at 
>http://rink.nu/downloads/xbox-patches/cromwell-bsd-build.diff
>
>I hope these patches will make it to the official Cromwell tree, and I
>would really like to see an official release soon that integrates them.
>They were made against the CVS version.
>
>Finally, I would like to thank Ed Schouten for providing me with his
>XBox to develop everything on, as well as reviewing my patches and
>providing me with details to make this all work.
>
>[1] The framebuffer is fully supported, same goes for sound and USB
>    devices (such as an USB keyboard for the console). Only ethernet
>    is missing, currently, as FreeBSD lacks support for it. The binary
>    only driver in /usr/ports/net/nvnet fails with an error 5, for some
>    reason.
>
>  
>



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