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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:28:27 -0300
From:      Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.1 / 11 on a Raspberry Pi B+ / 2 ?
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On 22 April 2015 at 13:49, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> On 16.04.15, Dan Raymond wrote:
>
>> I'm also interested in swapping out my B+ for a Raspberry Pi 2 but I am
>> waiting on FreeBSD support.
>
> Me too. There is already a RPI2 kernel Profile in /sys/arm/conf/. But there
> is no way to boot such kernel, the u-boot bootloader is not compatible to the
> Cortex-A7. Linux (rasbian) is using two different kernels for bcm2835 and
> the new bcm2836 (which includes A7) (which are booted directly at this stage
> instead of u-boot). So we need also two u-boot binaries?
>
> I'm not sure what else is missing.
>
> -Andreas

Yes, that is right, we need a different u-boot for it.

I'm working on the new u-boot, it's working already, its a matter of
tidy up the port and get everything in its place.

This will probably mean a new template for crochet (or writing down
the required steps on wiki).

I hope it is ready by the end of week.

Regards,
Luiz



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