Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:09:07 -0700 From: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on R-Pi and BBB: Odds and ends Message-ID: <20160315060907.4BDF6406057@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>
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Thanks for all the good work. The link behind FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE at the bottom of https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi is broken. My browser gives a popup saying "550 Failed to change directory" Maybe that should be 10.3, but that hasn't been updated since late Jan. There is nothing on the R-Pi web page that tells you that there are 2 different packages to download for the Raspberry Pi: RPI-B and RPI2. The RPI-B version doesn't work on the Pi-2. I haven't found a RPI2 version for 10.x 11.0 is working for me. (As you might guess, I banged my head against the wall for a while trying to run the RPI-B version from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/ on a Pi-2.) Will the Pi-2 version run on older Pi-s? Or would it be reasonable to make it? Is there a good reason for the two versions? The RPI-B version doesn't work on an A+. It goes into a reboot loop. I didn't catch the printout on the screen. Poking an a USB keybord at the "poke any key" delay didn't do anything. Neither the R-Pi page nor the BBB page contains the recipe (or a link to it) for putting the downloaded bits on to an SD card. Yes, it's trivial after you know the recipe, but I think not finding that simple paragraph was one of my stumbling blocks when I was looking around weeks ago. I forget where I found the recipe. As a sanity check, it might help to include the output from fdisk/gpart to show what the SD card should look like and mention that on first boot it gets expanded to use all the space on the card. Will user-land binaries built on one armv6 platform run on other armv6 platforms? If so, one set of pkg binaries could support several/all hardware platforms in the family. It would be worth a note on the BBB page pointing out that if you get to a Linux system you forgot to hold down the button when you connected power. (It took me a while to figure that out.) Is there a way to tell a BBB to boot from the SD card even if the button isn't down? I thought I saw that recipe once while browsing around the web but I couldn't find it when I wanted it. It does stick over reboot commands, but that won't help recover after a power glitch. Is there a way to read the temperature on the BBB? I didn't find anything in sysctl -a -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.
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