Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:30:17 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting started with freebsd-arm on Cubox-i2 Message-ID: <201512280230.TAA01501@mail.lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <1451264046.1369.21.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201512272145.OAA28860@mail.lariat.net> <1451264046.1369.21.camel@freebsd.org>
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Ian: Thank you! Interestingly, when I plugged in a USB cable from a Windows computer, it recognized the USB serial port (which means that the USB-serial chip was getting power) but did not seem to be powering the CuBox. But when I connected a separate 5V power supply, I got a bootstrap and was able to log in as root with PuTTY, using the password "root". About half of the applications I will have for these boards will not require video support, and so I may want to do builds that are serial-only. On the CuBox-i2 which I have here, top(8) reports Mem: 11M Active, 10M Inact, 19M Wired, 4081K Buf, 956M Free which accounts for only 1000M of the 1024M -- suggesting that the remaining 24M are reserved for video. Or are they? On this chipset, is it possible to recover the video buffer RAM for general use in a "headless" system? --Brett Glass At 05:54 PM 12/27/2015, Ian Lepore wrote: >The video support for imx6 chips was just committed a few days ago and >isn't in the image you downloaded. The cubox is likely booting just >fine and sitting at a login prompt that you can't see. > >The cubox has a built in usb-serial adapter for the console. Just plug >a micro-usb cable into the slot to the right of the sdcard and connect >it to any computer with a terminal program (on freebsd use cu -l >/dev/cuaU0 -s 115200). > >-- Ian
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