From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 19:06:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558F3CCE; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from monday.kientzle.com (99-115-135-74.uvs.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.115.135.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CA98FC08; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from root@localhost) by monday.kientzle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) id qAPJ61St033561; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:06:01 GMT (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.2.143] (CiscoE3000 [192.168.1.65]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id 5iiten4di27buz9n9d4zuxhy5w; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi From: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:05:59 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <31C904E6-F230-4187-AE32-F9A7B1A7C38E@freebsd.org> <509CC1F6.1010308@freebsd.org> <1B7CD3EC-6F99-43A3-BAAA-EC6EA25D90A9@bluezbox.com> To: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-hackers X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:06:03 -0000 On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 11 November 2012 12:39, Oleksandr Tymoshenko = 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