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

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jan 22 05:19:24 CET 2017


On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> 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? Do you mean that U-Boot can boot FreeBSD?

No. The FreeBSD loader is loaded by u-boot and it loads the kernel,
modules and sets up a number of environment variables.

Warner

>> +
>>  source "common/spl/Kconfig"
>> --
>> 2.11.0
>>
>
> Regards,
> Simon


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