Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:02 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Koz Ross <koz.ross@retro-freedom.nz> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BeagleBone Black - what still needs to be done for audio? Message-ID: <CABx9NuSwFQtHQtiua_fGdCbYwv%2B4RCYD0qBEAWZR9QwMHZCjyQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuSRrvnvrT4CRvUOgGDVf3bwfBJ-BmHi7EJq9FEEx9Xy8A@mail.gmail.com> References: <20161026091428.GA1468@Sebastian> <CABx9NuSRrvnvrT4CRvUOgGDVf3bwfBJ-BmHi7EJq9FEEx9Xy8A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Koz Ross <koz.ross@retro-freedom.nz> wrote: >> I've been meaning to get into both ARM and BSD for a while, so I decided I >> would begin with FreeBSD and a BeagleBone Black I have lying around. I read >> this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack , which >> states >> that audio on the BBB 'still needs to be done'. >> >> I was wondering what it means by 'still needs to be done', and what >> precisely >> needs to be done to have working BBB audio. As I am very new to both ARM and >> BSD, could someone please fill me in? I would like to contribute if I can. > > > That page is a little out of date, but I don't have a recent image for > my BBB. Have you tried running the latest image? If I remember > correctly: > > https://www.freebsd.org/where.html -> download the sd card image. > > xzcat <download-dir>/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE.img.xz > | dd of=/dev/da<yer-sd-card> bs=1m (or is it bs=1M?) > > The FreeBSD handbook is the place to start at. It will give you > directions on how to get your image set up: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > Once you're able to setup and test HDMI and have a running image, > you'll be in a better position to start looking at audio issues. > > Do you know anything about the BBB hardware? You'll need to find out > what the audio interface is and if the FreeBSD kernel supports it. > Then you need to find out if it's in the default kernel, if not, > you'll need to learn to build the kernel yourself (or build the module > and install and load it). I'm bored of Javascript at work... This looks like a good lead for you: https://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/next-gen_beaglebone/blog/2013/05/28/bbb--audio-notes Cheers, Russ
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