Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:05:59 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi Message-ID: <E44CBCD7-98DD-4D95-858A-45E3415C8E0A@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=kAfYdtT173fZ8rTpnMPe-yee_dhD0HMzzNgaPZf62CA@mail.gmail.com> References: <31C904E6-F230-4187-AE32-F9A7B1A7C38E@freebsd.org> <CAEW%2BogaNKtYS4TsZFBMX-DbdBrvJbbep2tvGobnE6DF-9F696A@mail.gmail.com> <CAFC71DF-6336-4D1F-B699-76014F988EC0@freebsd.org> <509CC1F6.1010308@freebsd.org> <CAEW%2BogaZYBu8oKWXOO5aaWTEj3N7-LCc-TN25xWSo6-EyOHFGw@mail.gmail.com> <1B7CD3EC-6F99-43A3-BAAA-EC6EA25D90A9@bluezbox.com> <CAJ-Vmo=kAfYdtT173fZ8rTpnMPe-yee_dhD0HMzzNgaPZf62CA@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 11 November 2012 12:39, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> At the moment HDMI output works only in a sense of video output for =
simple
>> frame buffer. I'm trying to get GPU support ported but not sure how =
much time
>> it will take. Eventually we'd like to get audio support too.
>=20
> How's the general, non-video support working out? Are there any random
> crashes or panics that people are seeing on R-PI right now?
So far, I haven't done very much, but it is stable enough to
natively build a bootable kernel; note the build machine on
my RPi boot message:
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 25 14:23:57 UTC 2012
root@raspberry-pi:/usr/src/sys/arm/compile/RPI-B arm
The two biggest obstacles right now are:
* Memory. There's a missing piece in the current boot sequence
that causes it to always default to 128MB memory. That makes
it hard to do much on a generic -CURRENT build. (The native kernel
above took a long time; swapping to SDHC is a little slow. ;-)
Related: Shipping RPis now have 512MB RAM; I'm pretty excited about =
that.
* Video console. You've probably noticed the exchanges on the list.
Apart from that, it's pretty promising. I'm optimistic that we're
no more than a couple of weeks from having a FreeBSD image
that a lot of folks can just download and use.
Tim
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E44CBCD7-98DD-4D95-858A-45E3415C8E0A>