From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 03:56:39 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6F2E14A for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 03:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from feynman.konjz.org (feynman.konjz.org [64.147.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A70C23B for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 03:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (exit2.telostor.ca [62.210.74.186]) (authenticated bits=0) by feynman.konjz.org (8.14.7/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1G41tPM031410 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:01:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from george@ceetonetechnology.com) Message-ID: <54E16A1D.4010804@ceetonetechnology.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:55:09 -0500 From: George Rosamond MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Hallett , Poppy Faria Subject: Re: Building for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B References: <7500481424056833@web25h.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 03:56:39 -0000 Daniel Hallett: > i have ordered my pi 2 b the same day it released and got it on the > friday of the same week. i am wondering what i can do to help withe > the development of the porting for the ARMv7 on the r-pi 2 b? i am > knowledgeable about computers overall and willing to learn new things. > i am even willing to erase my RaspbianOS installed currently in order > to the build but might i be able to compile from src the code on > Raspbian and then deploy it by testing the img file? from there i can > further assist in other coding issues/building from the freebsd > installed on my pi 2 b. i do have a 2TB HDD with a 3.0 usb connected > to the pi for storage. > Daniel & Poppy: I don't have the RPi 2 yet, but AFAIK, the big change is the uboot files, which you could manually checkout. Most of us are using crochet-freebsd to build images located at https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd. However, using FreeBSD head (11.x), I had to hash out vchi in the RPI-B kernel to build for the last released RPI to build an image. HTH. g