IXP42x port

[Gabriel Gonzalez]

Hi there,

  I own a ixp42x board and would like to see OpenBSD running on it. I
have tried NetBSD and it runs smoothly so I guess more than half of
the work is done?

  I have already got a out-of-the-tree cross-compiling toolchain (gcc
3.4.3 & newlib 1.17)  working.

  Could you please me advice which should be the next step to start
working on porting the kernel? I think I should start looking around
start.S but I wouldn't like to waste time working on the wrong
direction!

  Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

  Gabriel Gonzalez.

[SAITOH Masanobu]

 > Hi there,
 >
 >   I own a ixp42x board and would like to see OpenBSD running on it. I
 > have tried NetBSD and it runs smoothly so I guess more than half of
 > the work is done?
 >
 >   I have already got a out-of-the-tree cross-compiling toolchain (gcc
 > 3.4.3 & newlib 1.17)  working.
 >
 >   Could you please me advice which should be the next step to start
 > working on porting the kernel? I think I should start looking around
 > start.S but I wouldn't like to waste time working on the wrong
 > direction!
 >
 >   Thanks in advance!
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >   Gabriel Gonzalez.


 I discussed about the porting for IXP4xx with OpenBSD guys at AsiaBSDCon 2009.
They were afraid about the license for the NPE library. I couldn't explain the
licence there, sorry.

 Here is the license agreement:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/license_agr.aspx?url=/13750/eng/BSD_ixp400AccessLibrary-3_0.zip&ProductID=2100&agr=Y&sType=&PrdMap=&DwnldId=13750&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All+Operating+Systems&lang=eng

 2 clause BSD license?

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                SAITOH Masanobu (masanobu@...
                                  msaitoh@...)

[Gabriel Gonzalez]

I don't see any problem with that license, you can always ask the user
to download the firmware as is done, IIRC, in NetBSD.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM, SAITOH Masanobu <masanobu@...> wrote:

>
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  >   I own a ixp42x board and would like to see OpenBSD running on it. I
>  > have tried NetBSD and it runs smoothly so I guess more than half of
>  > the work is done?
>  >
>  >   I have already got a out-of-the-tree cross-compiling toolchain (gcc
>  > 3.4.3 & newlib 1.17)  working.
>  >
>  >   Could you please me advice which should be the next step to start
>  > working on porting the kernel? I think I should start looking around
>  > start.S but I wouldn't like to waste time working on the wrong
>  > direction!
>  >
>  >   Thanks in advance!
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >   Gabriel Gonzalez.
>
>
>  I discussed about the porting for IXP4xx with OpenBSD guys at AsiaBSDCon

2009.
> They were afraid about the license for the NPE library. I couldn't explain
the
> licence there, sorry.
>
>  Here is the license agreement:
>
>
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/license_agr.aspx?url=/13750/eng/BSD_ixp400Acc
essLibrary-3_0.zip&ProductID=2100&agr=Y&sType=&PrdMap=&DwnldId=13750&strOSs=A
ll&OSFullName=All+Operating+Systems&lang=eng
>
>  2 clause BSD license?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>                SAITOH Masanobu (masanobu@...
>                                  msaitoh@...)