From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mon Dec 28 02:30:48 2015 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 7B96AA4C538 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from mail.lariat.net (mail.lariat.net [66.62.230.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4495C1B2A; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from Toshi.lariat.net (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01501; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:30:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <201512280230.TAA01501@mail.lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:30:17 -0700 To: Ian Lepore , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Getting started with freebsd-arm on Cubox-i2 In-Reply-To: <1451264046.1369.21.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201512272145.OAA28860@mail.lariat.net> <1451264046.1369.21.camel@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:30:48 -0000 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