From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 19 20:49:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C1F9F41 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0AED12A5 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WGE5X-000LwT-Jo; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:49:51 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s1JKnmwt030351; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:49:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19JUgy/uYuR/TzcfQhR9D6W Subject: Re: About FreeBSD support one more mini-pc From: Ian Lepore To: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: References: <210081392741053@web22h.yandex.ru> <1392835264.1145.33.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:49:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1392842988.1145.50.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:49:58 -0000 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. -- Ian