From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Oct 15 03:07:15 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1686A1576D for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@ceetonetechnology.com) Received: from feynman.konjz.org (feynman.konjz.org [64.147.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 804521CFF for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@ceetonetechnology.com) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([84.200.56.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by feynman.konjz.org (8.14.7/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t9F2ge61046284 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:42:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george@ceetonetechnology.com) Subject: Re: BeagleBone Green To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <56099322.1080804@ceetonetechnology.com> <967B69D5-19FA-40FE-BBFD-DFB231EEBC8D@netgate.com> <6EF9C190-A5C2-4B68-ACB5-805AE8323E57@netgate.com> <20150929154721.GE42013@cicely7.cicely.de> <560ABDC1.6000301@ceetonetechnology.com> From: George Rosamond X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <561F1202.5070308@ceetonetechnology.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:40:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <560ABDC1.6000301@ceetonetechnology.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:07:15 -0000 George Rosamond: > Bernd Walter: >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:25:47AM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >>>> >>>> Beaglebone Green eliminates microSD >>> >>> I was mistaken. It appears that Beaglebone Green has microSD, and adds a battery holder to keep the TOD clock running when no power is supplied. >> >> Nice feature. >> On the other hand I don't like USB connectors for power and having the >> barrel plug was a good thing. >> > > +1 on that. There were cases in the past that I assume power was the > issue with a number of BeagleBone problems, such as mount USB sticks. > > The OP question remains, though: has anyone installed FreeBSD on the > Green yet? I'm curious about the support for groove and the associated > devices, and whether the "identical chipsets" are *really* identical. > We all know, by now, that the same label on a component is not > necessarily the same chipset. Just a quick followup on this. I picked up a BeagleBone Green today, and gjb@'s 10.2 image from 20150801 booted just as it does on the BBBlack. Didn't yet attempt to copy from the microSD to eMMC yet. Serial connections work fine with the FTDI j1/j4/j5 connections as with the BBBlack. I posted the dmesg on NYC*BUG's dmesgd: http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2830 I haven't followed the status of pkg on arm recently, but pkg doesn't seem operational with the binary install: root@beaglebone:~ # pkg The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly, please wait... pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system. Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'. I am now in the process of populating /usr/ports with svnlite, but it's still painfully slow. I don't have any of the four-pin grooves to test yet, but I'll probably start checking those out after I get back into building crochet images. It may be time to update the Wiki and other documentation with (at least) mention of the BBGreen. g