Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:49:48 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <wlosh@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD support one more mini-pc Message-ID: <1392842988.1145.50.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <FD2977C2-7F98-4B48-81D6-87D2B81BEA78@bsdimp.com> References: <210081392741053@web22h.yandex.ru> <1392835264.1145.33.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAB3ij4CKpp5hQWeKk5icq6dgxKX%2BtiFLho1TYKc%2BnTbufGzzFA@mail.gmail.com> <FD2977C2-7F98-4B48-81D6-87D2B81BEA78@bsdimp.com>
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On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:40 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Tom Everett wrote: > > > I would happily build a crochet-FreeBSD build for this, if it had a chance > > of working. I don't see a kernel config or any .dts files for this board > > on the tree, however, so those would have to be built out? > > Doesn't the board maker give yon ones that work on Linux? DTS is > designed to be OS agnostic, but doesn't always achieve that design > goal. Starting from Linux files typically is a good place to begin, although > from conversations with Ian I know that the iMX stuff falls farther from the > goals than others, so some manual tweaking would be in order... > > Warner > I actually worked pretty hard to make the imx6 stuff work with the linux dts without a lot of our own extra properties thrown in. I'm not sure it's 100% there. I need to get ublr working reliably with my wandboards, and then it's possible we could have a single unified imx6 kernel that worked for all imx6 boards. When I last tried ubldr it would sometimes launch the kernel just fine and sometimes just mysteriously hang. -- Ianhelp
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