[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/4] kconfig: Add a FREEBSD option

[Jeroen Hofstee]

Hello Simon,


On 21-01-17 04:51, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17 January 2017 at 08:50, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>> Add a FreeBSD option that enable the API and enable the data cache
>> command as it is needed to boot the FreeBSD loader.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
>> ---
>>   common/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig
>> index a04ee1084f..b719ccd888 100644
>> --- a/common/Kconfig
>> +++ b/common/Kconfig
>> @@ -389,4 +389,13 @@ config DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
>>            when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
>>            to do this.
>>
>> +config FREEBSD
>> +       bool "Enable FreeBSD boot"
>> +       select API
>> +       select CMD_CACHE
>> +       default n
>> +       help
>> +         This option adds boot configuration that can run the FreeBSD
>> +         loader.
> What is the FreeBSD loader?

see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader(8). Which is rather nice, 
FreeBSD uses
the same loader independent of arch, so booting the previous kernel / 
kernel module stuff
and rescue things are roughly the same on i386, amd64 and arm. The 
loader communicates
with u-boot by its api.
> Do you mean that U-Boot can boot FreeBSD?
>

Hence he meant what he wrote. Be able to run the FreeBSD _loader_.
The FreeBSD loader will take care of booting FreeBSD.

Regards,
Jeroen