Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:48:04 -0500 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BeagleBone? Message-ID: <20120116014804.GC4614@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <1326674671.1669.2.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <8156C9AF-3550-482F-8485-C7D0DA2EB8A0@freebsd.org> <1326674671.1669.2.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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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
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