Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:35:04 -0400
From:      Rich Neese <r.neese@gmail.com>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Support for Raspberry-PI
Message-ID:  <4FCCFFD8.9020800@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120604172053.D4674B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  <CAB3Sx6f7TPkfAfsmS_SWch5kGkyxv9=43nV66ToDRQmG4vv9ug@mail.gmail.com> <4F533E46.1070105@freebsd.org> <20120603201229.3fd31c98.torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> <4FCBC564.3060404@freebsd.org> <20120604172053.D4674B827@mail.bitblocks.com>

index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail

On 6/4/2012 1:20 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:13:24 PDT Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> FreeBSD for R-Pi is non-existent as of now. The problem with porting -
>> there is no way to netboot device. So Alexander Rybalko and I are
>> working on U-Boot port for Raspberry-Pi. Once we'll have netboot option
>> thighs should go much faster.
> I haven't tried this yet but presumably you can NFS mount your
> kernel dev system and just kexec() the freebsd kernel (or
> netboot!) from linux...  This may be a good short term path.
> Also note that someone has got jtag working.  You do have to
> solder a wire on the S5 connector to make it work (& voiding
> your warranty)! See
>     http://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/armjtag
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
you should be able to netboot from bsd why use linux
you have to use nfs and tftpboot but you should be able to boot it up



home | help

Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4FCCFFD8.9020800>