From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 01:48:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140CC106566B; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:48:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lidl@hydra.pix.net) Received: from hydra.pix.net (hydra.pix.net [IPv6:2001:470:e254::3c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74918FC12; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hydra.pix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydra.pix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0G1m5ol004949; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:48:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lidl@hydra.pix.net) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.1 at mail.pix.net Received: (from lidl@localhost) by hydra.pix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q0G1m4e3004948; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:48:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lidl) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:48:04 -0500 From: Kurt Lidl To: Ian Lepore Message-ID: <20120116014804.GC4614@pix.net> References: <8156C9AF-3550-482F-8485-C7D0DA2EB8A0@freebsd.org> <1326674671.1669.2.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1326674671.1669.2.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-hackers , Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: BeagleBone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:48:09 -0000 On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 05:44:31PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:05 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Just got a BeagleBone in the mail and so far, it seems like fun: > > * Under $100 > > * Relatively modern Cortex-A8 ARM CPU (TI AM3358) > > * Built-in Ethernet, USB console, etc. > > > > So far, I've gotten console access from my FreeBSD > > laptop and am starting to tinker with a nanobsd-like > > script to build a bootable SD image. (By copying the > > MLO and u-boot.img files; nothing FreeBSD-specific yet.) > > > > Next step: Compile the arm/uboot boot loader and > > see if I can get that to load and run. > > > > Anyone else tinkering with one of these? Any > > hints? ;-) > > > > Tim > > The freebsd-arm list would be the place for info. There's still work to > do to get FreeBSD running on a Cortex-A8, last I heard. There's this: http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard-freebsd/ Which has a status from January, and a pointer to a newer code drop, and a couple of wiki entries saying to build it and boot it. (The gitorious link just has code, no wiki or other useful information, at least that I saw when browsing.) The long and short of it (as I understand, since I just happened to have read through this stuff the other day), is that there's a kernel that compiles and has a bunch of drivers. But the pmap routines for that ARM varient are just stubbed, so there's no userland going on at all. Good luck -- it looks like a cool little board on which to run FreeBSD. -Kurt