Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:55:12 +1300 From: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi EABI test image Message-ID: <20121224135512.30c84b7c@fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <50D79C5C.1000704@m5p.com> References: <20121224103825.086cd584@fubar.geek.nz> <50D79C5C.1000704@m5p.com>
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:05:48 -0500 George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > On 12/23/12 16:38, Andrew Turner wrote: > > I have made a test image built from the EABI branch for the > > Raspberry Pi. It is available from: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~andrew/rpi/rpi-eabi-r244581.img.xz > > > > I would appreciate it if people with a Raspberry Pi could test this > > as I am likely to start merging EABI support into head early next > > year. As far as I can tell everything should work with the > > exception of gdb which is known to be broken. > > > > To load the image you need to uncompress the file and run a command > > similar to: > > dd if=rpi-eabi-r244581.img of=/dev/mmcsd0 > > > > Changing the of= device as required for your system. The SD card > > should boot into FreeBSD with the console on the HDMI port and a > > login prompt on the UART. > > > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Your image works for me. I don't have an appropriate serial cable, so > I connected a USB keyboard. > > There are some rough edges, but they aren't new with this image: > > Every so often, a key release event from the USB keyboard is dropped > and I get a sequence of repeated characters until I type something > else. I think an occasional key press is dropped as well, but I'm > such a bad typist that I'm not sure. This is a know issue with the usb driver. I don't know if there is a fix or workaround for it. > > Although rc.conf says ue0_config="DHCP"', dhclient doesn't run. I can > run it manually, and then everything network-related works. I've seen this before with other RPi images. > I NFS-mounted a /usr/ports tree and installed portmaster. When I > tried "portmaster -BDg sysutils/LPRng", it died trying to run > something called autom4te while working on libtool. This may or may not be an EABI issue, are you able to send through a log of the build? I can also see if I can reproduce it here. > What would we need to do to get a driver for the pulse-width > modulation audio port? > > The lack of a visible cursor on the screen is a major annoyance. It sounds like this is a problem with the RPi driver. Andrew
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