Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:48:23 -0700 From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD licensed Broadcom VideoCore driver Message-ID: <1BA15896-340D-45D2-A43D-94AE672942C1@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <3660A738-1AB4-41B1-8824-532DF4203D40@kientzle.com> References: <5087CFB2.5030405@gmail.com> <3660A738-1AB4-41B1-8824-532DF4203D40@kientzle.com>
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On 2012-10-24, at 10:10 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > >> Hello, >> The rpi foundation just posted this up. >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 > > There are two very basic pieces missing from the FreeBSD/RPI kernel right now: > > 1) MMC driver. Oleksandr had one in his github tree but it has not been merged to -CURRENT. I think that's the only obstacle to building bootable SD images today. I'm working on getting it into -CURRENT. Hope to finish by the end of the week. > 2) Framebuffer. Documentation: http://elinux.org/RPi_Framebuffer > It looks like it might be a couple days work for someone to tie this into sysconf and get a working text console through the HDMI connector. > Actually framebuffer should be working. You just need to uncomment several line in config file and add USB keyboard support.help
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