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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:40:39 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BeagleBone Green
Message-ID:  <20151015084039.GB66179@e-new.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <561F1202.5070308@ceetonetechnology.com>
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:40:02PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
> George Rosamond:
> > Bernd Walter:
> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:25:47AM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Beaglebone Green eliminates microSD
> >>>
> >>> I was mistaken. It appears that Beaglebone Green has microSD, and add=
s a battery holder to keep the TOD clock running when no power is supplied.=
 =20
> >>
> >> Nice feature.
> >> On the other hand I don't like USB connectors for power and having the
> >> barrel plug was a good thing.
> >>
> >=20
> > +1 on that.  There were cases in the past that I assume power was the
> > issue with a number of BeagleBone problems, such as mount USB sticks.
> >=20
> > The OP question remains, though: has anyone installed FreeBSD on the
> > Green yet?  I'm curious about the support for groove and the associated
> > devices, and whether the "identical chipsets" are *really* identical.
> > We all know, by now, that the same label on a component is not
> > necessarily the same chipset.
>=20
> Just a quick followup on this.
>=20
> I picked up a BeagleBone Green today, and gjb@'s 10.2 image from
> 20150801 booted just as it does on the BBBlack.  Didn't yet attempt to
> copy from the microSD to eMMC yet.
>=20
> Serial connections work fine with the FTDI j1/j4/j5 connections as with
> the BBBlack.
>=20
> I posted the dmesg on NYC*BUG's dmesgd:
>=20
> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=3Ddmesgd&do=3Dview&id=3D2830
>=20
> I haven't followed the status of pkg on arm recently, but pkg doesn't
> seem operational with the binary install:
>=20
> root@beaglebone:~ # pkg
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg from
> pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly, please wait...
> pkg: Error fetching
> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Fou=
nd
> A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
> Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pk=
g'.

For HEAD you can use Sean Bruno's package repository:
http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages/11armv6-default/

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