Hi, Thanks to jsg@, the latest snapshot releases of OpenBSD will boot on the Novenai open-source laptop (http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page). It's still very rough: no SMP, flaky USB and support for the eeprom (so no MAC addr on the IMX ethernet), but it gets to multi-user and could probably compile its own kernel given the chance.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=dr2qZSi2 is a boot log To try it out, the easiest way is to setup a tftp server and configure DHCP to tell Novena about it. Then boot/reset with the user button held down, ^C when prompted (be quick, you only have a couple of seconds) and issue the following u-boot commands: setenv machid 10ad setenv loadaddr 0x10800000 dhcp bootm Note that u-boot doesn't seem to fully reset the ethernet controller/MAC. If you experience partial transfers that abort due to timeouts during the 'dhcp' command then a workaround is to completely remove power from Novena and try again after a minute or three. If you can get an installation completed (the imxenet is pretty flaky, possibly because of an all-0 MAC address), then you'll also need to copy bsd*.IMX.umg to the /boot partition of the sdcard under Linux (OpenBSD can't access the sdcard yet) and arrange uboot to fatload it from there. Something like: setenv machid 10ad setenv loadaddr 0x10800000 fatload mmc 0 0x10800000 bsd.IMG.umg bootm I baked these sequences into u-boot by following the instructions at http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=U-boot_PVT_Notes and modifying include/configs/novena.h with the additional commands, but it's also probably possible to put them in the /boot/uEnv.txt file that uboot reads at startup. -d
