Re: Cromwell patches for FreeBSD support

On Monday 25 July 2005 13:29, 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.

Great work - congratulations!

> 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

This looks pretty good - I will try to commit it in the next few days. You 
don't mention if linux still loads with them, but I'll assume that it does ;)

> 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'm a bit less happy about these though.  The files they touch aren't ours - 
they come from mainstream grub/etherboot, so as far as I can see, they should 
be submitted to them first (Apologies if upstream has these applied - let me 
know if this is the case and I will sync with them again).

The reiser stuff is definitely straight from upstream, unchanged - I am a 
little less sure about whether we changed etherboot/core/nic.c though - I 
wasn't involved in much of the etherboot work.

David

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