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From: Mario Sangiorgio <mariosangiorgio@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:15:53 +0000
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Raspberry PI
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Thank you all for your answers. As soon as I'll get a serial console usb
cable I'll install FreeBSD on my Raspberry Pi.

Regarding the update, is it just a matter of copying the new version of
these files [1] in /boot?

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot

On Sun Nov 02 2014 at 4:56:16 PM Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 2, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Mario Sangiorgio <mariosangiorgio@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > First, the wiki says:
> > As of January 2013, FreeBSD-CURRENT fully supports either a video console
> > (you'll need a USB keyboard and display connected) or it can be
> configured
> > to use a serial console (you'll need a serial adapter cable such as the
> one
> > sold by Adafruit.com).
> >
> > Does it mean that by default the access via the serial adapter is not
> > enabled by default and it needs to be configured in a special way?
>
> The serial console is always enabled.
>
> Tim
>
>