Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:36:14 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Iain Young <iain@g7iii.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SD card -image- for the beaglebone Message-ID: <1359646574.93359.327.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <510A4F5B.7000407@g7iii.net> References: <510A4F5B.7000407@g7iii.net>
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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 11:02 +0000, Iain Young wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have just taken delivery of a few Beaglebones that I am intending to > do some NTP Work. With FreeBSD having one of the better reputations > with regards to Time and PPS etc, I thought I would install FreeBSD on > at least one of them. > > Unfortunately, all of the guides I've found all assume you have a > FreeBSD box already running. Unfortunately, I don't, and nor do I have > a spare x86 box to do so. > > Does anyone have an *image* of a base install for a 4 Gig microSD > card that I can download ? Preferably with ssh and dhcp installed > (yes, I know about blowing away the keys), as that would avoid having > to rely on the console. > > Quite happy to rebuild the kernel and world afterwards (yes, I know I > need an 8 Gig SD card), but it's just this bootstrapping problem thats > an issue... > So you're interested in a PPS driver for BeagleBone? That would be fun to play with, I wonder what the BB's timer hardware looks like? It'd be easy enough to do with a gpio interrupt I suspect, but the timing geek in me can't resist going for the nanosecond-accurate measurements when possible, even if it is kind of pointless for millisecond-accurate NTP. -- Ian
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