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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:49:18 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama@peach.ne.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 11-CURRENT on Raspberry Pi 512MB
Message-ID:  <C9E25385-E665-4895-96CE-DCC71B36FF3B@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <0A8390C3FC2B444B9AA8AC934B79DCD6@ad.peach.ne.jp>
References:  <0A8390C3FC2B444B9AA8AC934B79DCD6@ad.peach.ne.jp>

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On Oct 28, 2014, at 18:20, Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama@peach.ne.jp> wrote:
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> I've created FreeBSD 11-CURRENT for RPi based on svn 273303.
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> The first version is released at my Japanese blog:
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> Download and tips
> http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/2931
> Initial setup of FreeBSD 11 on RPi
> http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/2946
> Package installation of Apache 2.4(event MPM), MySQL 5.6, PHP 5.6(ZTS) =
and phpMyAdmin.
> http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/2951
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> The pre-build base images are available from my archives:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/
> (Latest version is =
FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI-B-test20-r273303-20141026.img.gz)
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> Download and decompress it, then write it to an SD card of 8GB or =
more.
> This image is intended to use as a headless server. (No X11 and GPU =
16MB)
> For quick playing, I provide some useful packages such as samba 4.1, =
AMP.
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> This version have cpufreq(4) based frequency contoller.
> Clock frequencies can be dynamically changed by hand or powerd.
> Also realtime raw values including temperature are stored in =
hw.cpufreq:
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> Example overclock at 1000MHz:
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> # sysctl hw.cpufreq
> hw.cpufreq.arm_freq: 1000000000
> hw.cpufreq.core_freq: 500000000
> hw.cpufreq.sdram_freq: 500000000
> hw.cpufreq.turbo: 1
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_core: 6
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_c: 1
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_i: 1
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_p: 1
> hw.cpufreq.temperature: 50843
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> # sysctl dev.cpu
> dev.cpu.%parent:
> dev.cpu.0.%desc: Open Firmware CPU
> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.0.%location:
> dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: name=3Dcpu@0 compat=3Darm,1176jzf-s
> dev.cpu.0.%parent: cpulist0
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 300
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 700/-1 600/-1 500/-1 =
400/-1 300/-1
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>=20
> Note:
> Do not build kernel without patch to bcm2835_mbox.c, otherwise you get =
a panic in msleep.
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> Using config is here:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/config/RPI-B-test20
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> Source and pacth is here:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/patch/
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> Local packages is here:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/ports/packages/All/
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> Pre-configured:
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> MEM 496MB/GPU 16MB/SWAP none
> Clock: ARM 800MHz/Core 400MHz/SDRAM 400MHz (overclock from =
700/250/400)
> ntpdate: 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
> portsnap: fetch and extracted
> powerd: enabled (min 300MHz)
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> See also:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/00README.txt

This is pretty interesting.  Is anyone already helping you merge your =
code to FreeBSD?

Some questions:

- Did you measure the power consumption when using the different =
frequency values?
- Could you also export the temperature in dev.cpu.0.temperature like =
coretemp/amdtemp?  You'd need to perform a device lookup and then lookup =
its sysctl context.

One suggestion I have is to move the register definition structures to a =
header file like bcm2835_cpufreq.h.

There are some style issues with your patch, but I think it's pretty =
close to being ready.

--
Rui Paulo






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