From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 2 16:16:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78284C17 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (ip-2-1-0-2.r03.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [IPv6:2001:418:0:5000::16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B618FC08 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qB2GFmfk091352; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 11:15:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <50BB7EB4.9080301@m5p.com> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:15:48 -0500 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121125 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleksandr Tymoshenko Subject: Re: Re: FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 512MB (with U-Boot + ubldr) References: <3988C1622A974F19A9D3888F0334FF10@ad.peach.ne.jp> <50B80DEF.4050201@m5p.com> <50B90708.5080703@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <50B90708.5080703@bluezbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.100.0.3 X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:15:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:16:28 -0000 On 11/30/12 14:20, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > On 11/29/2012 5:37 PM, George Mitchell wrote: > .. skipped .. >> I'm a newcomer to the Raspberry Pi, but I've been running FreeBSD for >> over fifteen years. Since I don't have a Pi yet, I am trying to >> emulate one with qemu. Here is the command line I'm currently trying: >> >> qemu-system-arm -cpu arm1136-r2 -m 256 -M versatilepb -serial stdio >> -hda freebsd-pi-20121130.img.gz >> >> It tells me "Kernel image must be specified". How can I get a kernel >> image to satisfy this request? > > Unfortunately this image is not suitable for qemu. qemu emulates > versatile platform board which is > hardware-wise is completely different from raspberry pi. All they have > in common is CPU. Both Pi > and qemu can run same userland but kernel should be compiled for each > platform individually. > > I'm woking on VersatilPB support for FreeBSD since it can make good > kernel development > and package building platform. No clear estimates for it though: > http://pastebin.ca/2255232 Thanks again for your attention. I've decided to go ahead and buy a Raspberry Pi for myself for Christmas, so the question has become moot. -- George > > >> >> Many thanks to the people performing this work, and also the beagleboard >> and beaglebone work! I hope to live long enough to see the day these >> platforms are promoted to tier 1 status in FreeBSD! -- George Mitchell >