From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mon Jan 25 18:34:53 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 CBB937EC2 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.blih.net", Issuer "mail.blih.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D1DE3E9 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1be31c09 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:28:09 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; s=mail; bh=DKzE+Rzif lbFO8/eKba9aNAQCWw=; b=cuLsJzmd73ZZywBOYPQ5BPDnrMjqvahVHmsBKte3M L5sSzgROlT7iU2NGwFOB1sWtrJ8dcDPJtSW67+UClxEzsaWiOyYnOAxFsWw7dCas Wbv130wYrJ9gOjdyl5VC7pwrLU2iBiNYcZtrZtb4hIdaiDa6QH9QWJGWP15IxUDl Ow= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; q=dns; s=mail; b=s7F 0kGTVw2slWuc/+uucnZZBfyiRUcaxZbtbmAM1wLp8qoN98Yv7BpXd5NoFe+l9LV4 s6+UYP4PHfammGNIvu9q/pnPPvR3FWeTxomfM5m9kmXChYh2SMLQsw88MO1aRsM1 ljmfTVpodtPQxN3NnVexNCJNRkRk2J/PsZWjeUbs= Received: from webmail.megadrive.org (www1.blih.net [212.83.177.180]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 02d3107c for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:28:09 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:28:09 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not booting on Raspberry with VGA 666 Organization: Bidouilliste In-Reply-To: <5B2CF49E-DF46-4E11-91C2-018FE55EC1F4@posteo.de> References: <5B2CF49E-DF46-4E11-91C2-018FE55EC1F4@posteo.de> Message-ID: X-Sender: manu@bidouilliste.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:42:02 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:34:53 -0000 On 2016-01-25 19:00, Oliver Psotta wrote: > Hello, > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20160121-r294499 did not boot on a > Rasberry Pi 2 B with the Gert VGA 666 adaptor connected to the > Raspberry's GPIO port. This adaptor basically is a passive resistor > network, using most of the GPIO's pins. FreeBSD doesn't support this kind of screen at the moment. > My guess is that FreeBSD tries to activate the serial port on GPIO and > this fails. Is there a solution to turn off the serial port or set the > config.txt to enable booting? You will need to edit the dts file and recompile a new dtb that disable the serial port. > By the way I've managed to get VGA 666 working for FreeBSD with the > same settings and files as for Linux and Risc OS. Of course booting > stops after the message > [code] Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 [/code] I guess it's works because u-boot and knows about it but as said before FreeBSD doesn't support this kind of screen. -- Emmanuel Vadot