From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Wed Oct 26 23:27:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39D2C2365D for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ua0-x22c.google.com (mail-ua0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c08::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DF85AB8 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ua0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id 6so15228198uat.0 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=O1IGsEQFnqCiS0cMjn75N0Z64xxyghbzF6QYwcLR40k=; b=EXNd1yZTNiyUyX+i4+dAQV6ociv8Kik8txmPl+x/438kR5suKVCzvRZ2bM38T2g8RF 3eHJ0Tlqht57xzkAL7UfIIeCOfIXPDjK1Vi+E7/xbifEpQDcZOd2qkEDEfeWerALZcKQ 5SNb2+PRBKBy9lKD1JelNySBXekxvx3dDUxT40wkQ+y3Vl1pOEPaOZCb0kuZ8Nk80k9G yakkqJvvF6SCiRLl6Om2lypPvjB/t54uTi+aRzmfGArTUoP/LVuv2EYLHij5fUX8Esqo IVtRcPrEwWvQGPl1yNyYB2i+k2j0nV6WpCwi+pLT7way0MYXWCqzdDYDgahKaQE6LBRK ALJQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=O1IGsEQFnqCiS0cMjn75N0Z64xxyghbzF6QYwcLR40k=; b=JpFJx6HqY5Dv1GFzeK9gmiBK3HeUGal9htN3gGpBepHI4vWGJ6Hr9wIuH/5fNoN4OC Xs8QVKe0piqu5jMxvevQE2+qGTA3++IOeJcerU/ObQovyMkxtysPRaWO7i9CaOaeYvwQ tlpDouE8AMO5o+kfjGFvu7r01NxtcNRCg1ysH2l4PVDYIAkbvP9DLzgpuUbLY8QAd0he frgyuBM3FlOunhIS0ZRWetmDpV9FE5LpCjELNSnnxqMMO3OqfyMQJZ5MpxpVEbrTm5Xt k1B24a83/N+YmhnDw460X7g6Y+5KZRWyhy10X7+1cE43ISECUEXxU62AqkSVbYHLM6Dv f9YA== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvfSifTXOr5OQWLk3TWL8G4t+WIA4IonATvXus6/wuA9qYM7zn4oDRhbNmLF4v3u3a83+Gtk/gZdLxSvcA== X-Received: by 10.176.69.195 with SMTP id u61mr3227668uau.106.1477524422674; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.79.1 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20161026091428.GA1468@Sebastian> From: Russell Haley Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:02 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BeagleBone Black - what still needs to be done for audio? To: Koz Ross Cc: freebsd-arm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:27:04 -0000 On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Russell Haley wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Koz Ross wrote: >> I've been meaning to get into both ARM and BSD for a while, so I decided I >> would begin with FreeBSD and a BeagleBone Black I have lying around. I read >> this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack , which >> states >> that audio on the BBB 'still needs to be done'. >> >> I was wondering what it means by 'still needs to be done', and what >> precisely >> needs to be done to have working BBB audio. As I am very new to both ARM and >> BSD, could someone please fill me in? I would like to contribute if I can. > > > That page is a little out of date, but I don't have a recent image for > my BBB. Have you tried running the latest image? If I remember > correctly: > > https://www.freebsd.org/where.html -> download the sd card image. > > xzcat /FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE.img.xz > | dd of=/dev/da bs=1m (or is it bs=1M?) > > The FreeBSD handbook is the place to start at. It will give you > directions on how to get your image set up: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > Once you're able to setup and test HDMI and have a running image, > you'll be in a better position to start looking at audio issues. > > Do you know anything about the BBB hardware? You'll need to find out > what the audio interface is and if the FreeBSD kernel supports it. > Then you need to find out if it's in the default kernel, if not, > you'll need to learn to build the kernel yourself (or build the module > and install and load it). I'm bored of Javascript at work... This looks like a good lead for you: https://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/next-gen_beaglebone/blog/2013/05/28/bbb--audio-notes Cheers, Russ