Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:00:11 +0200 From: Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com> To: John Nicholls <john@thinlinx.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beagleboard stuff Message-ID: <E09E25A4-3584-4407-980A-693D8A73EDEA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1301439148.12515.49.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> References: <E1Q4X5B-000J64-DJ@groundzero.grondar.org> <20110329150903.GA4069@ci0.org> <7519F558-CEA3-41A9-8AA6-5A3234C4F1A8@gmail.com> <1301439148.12515.49.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com>
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On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:52 AM, John Nicholls wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 23:38 +0200, Damjan Marion wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Everyone, > > Yohanes Nugroho <yohanes@gmail.com> is working on a FreeBSD Kernel for > the BeagleBoardXM > > To help speed up Kernel development I sent Yohanes a new version of > u-boot that uses the USB device to transfer the Kernel > >>> I just had the time to test it, and I can load freebsd kernel. >> >> Fantastic, that will save a bit of time, how many seconds does it take >> to load? > > About 2 seconds. It saves a lot from about 150 seconds using serial > port. > > If anybody wants a copy of the u-boot binary and the instructions to use > it just email me. > > We can't use tftp from u-boot as there is no u-boot support on the > BeafleboardXM for the combo USB Host / Ethernet chip... Huh, I just started writing utility to boot OMAP4 over USB, similar to usbboot tool from https://github.com/swetland/omap4boot but based on libusb, as usbboot uses native linux devfs calls. Can you share your instructions for beagleboard? Might be also applicable to pandaboard. Thanks, Damjanhome | help
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