Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:20:41 -0400 From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG, alie@affle.com Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... Message-ID: <448AAEF2-617E-4A6C-88BF-CE63FF30FA85@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <201210111731.q9BHVh8I034059@grabthar.secnetix.de> References: <201210111731.q9BHVh8I034059@grabthar.secnetix.de>
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On Oct 11, 2012, at 13:31 , Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> = wrote: > George Neville-Neil wrote: >> On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:11 , Alie Tan <> wrote: >>=20 >>> Please share your image for Beaglebone and Raspberry Pi when = possible. >>=20 >> That's an interesting idea, and one that we ought to look at. Let me = think >> about that. Remember that many of us will want to make production = images, >> with passwords, and won't be able to share them. >=20 > Personally I would also appreciate such images. >=20 > I'm following the -arm list for about two weeks because I would > like to use FreeBSD on a small (as small as possible) board to > control a small "gadget". >=20 > =46rom what I've read so far, it seems that getting FreeBSD to run > reliably on these boards is a time-consuming task that requires > a lot of trial-and-error, applying patches from here and there, > and so on. This is somewhat discouraging, to the point that I > would just use a Linux image (e.g. the one that's pre-installed > on a Raspberry Pi), because it would save so much time. >=20 > If there was a FreeBSD image available for download that works > out of the box on a particular board, with a list of features > supported (e.g. "USB and GPIO work, SD cards don't work yet, > ethernet works but is unstable"), that would be very welcome. >=20 It looks like people are putting those up (see Steven's comment) but, I also think that what you might want is something closer to a release image, and that's going to take a bit more work, probably from re@. Best, George
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