Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:13:25 +0200 From: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi Message-ID: <CAEW%2BogaNKtYS4TsZFBMX-DbdBrvJbbep2tvGobnE6DF-9F696A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31C904E6-F230-4187-AE32-F9A7B1A7C38E@freebsd.org> References: <31C904E6-F230-4187-AE32-F9A7B1A7C38E@freebsd.org>
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Hi, why the console cable is needed ? Sami On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote: > WARNING: This is still highly experimental and by no > means ready for "production use", but some folks might > find it interesting. > > To boot FreeBSD on your RaspberryPi, you'll need: > 1) A RaspberryPi. > 2) A serial cable similar to this one: www.adafruit.com/products/954 > 3) An SD card of 2GB or larger > > Download this 111MB file (~1.6G uncompressed): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/FreeBSD-RPI-B-r242362-2012-10-30.img.= xz > > Uncompress it, dd it onto your SD card, pop it in and apply power. > (The serial cable above can also provide power; just leave the red > lead disconnected until you get the SD card plugged in.) > > > KNOWN BROKEN STUFF > > * There's no framebuffer/syscons yet. Hence the need for a serial cabl= e. > > * The memory is mis-probed (actually a boot loader problem, > not a FreeBSD kernel issue), so you'll only get to use 128MB > (you might be able to change this for a single boot by breaking > into ubldr and editing the FDT by hand) > > * There has been NO attempt to reduce the footprint of this image. > It's a completely stock build of FreeBSD-CURRENT. > (Actually, I have turned off sendmail and a few other things in > rc.conf, > but compensated by building world with full debug enabled.) > > * I've personally not tried USB or Ethernet and have no idea if they > work. > > > HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN IMAGE > > The script I used to build this image is at: > github.com/kientzle/freebsd-beaglebone > (It was originally developed for BeagleBone.) > > > Enjoy! > > > > Boot message (edited for length): > > > DRAM: 128 MiB > WARNING: Caches not enabled > MMC: bcm2835_sdh: 0 > Using default environment > > In: serial > Out: serial > Err: serial > Net: Net Initialization Skipped > No ethernet found. > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 > reading uEnv.txt > > 74 bytes read > Importing environment from mmc ... > reading ubldr > > 728201 bytes read > ## Starting application at 0x02000054 ... > Consoles: U-Boot console > Compatible API signature found @7b75220 > Number of U-Boot devices: 1 > > FreeBSD/armv6 U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2 > (root@fci386.localdomain, Wed Nov 7 01:54:47 PST 2012) > DRAM: 128MB > > Device: disk > - > /boot/kernel/kernel data=3D0x300238+0x1ec7c syms=3D[0x4+0x70f80+0x4+0x56d= 3c] > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > fdt_start: 0x003DC138 > fdt_reg_valid(): reg#0 (start: 0x0 size: 0x8000000) valid! > Kernel entry at 0x100100... > Kernel args: (null) > > =85 > > Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Nov 7 04:23:11 PST 2012 > root@fci386.localdomain:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B arm > CPU: Sheeva 88SV581x rev 7 (Marvell core) > Supported features: ARM_ISA THUMB2 JAZELLE ARMv4 Security_Ext > WB enabled LABT branch prediction enabled > 16KB/32B 4-way instruction cache > 16KB/32B 4-way write-back-locking-C data cache > real memory =3D 134217728 (128 MB) > avail memory =3D 125685760 (119 MB) > > =85 > > FreeBSD/arm (raspberry-pi) (ttyu0) > > login: root > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (RPI-B) #3: Wed Nov 7 04:23:11 PST 2012 > > Welcome to FreeBSD! > > =85 > > root@raspberry-pi:/root # top > > last pid: 490; load averages: 0.63, 0.30, 0.12 up 0+00:01:32 > 12:47:50 > 7 processes: 1 running, 6 sleeping > CPU: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 2.3% interrupt, 96.5% idle > Mem: 59M Active, 7312K Inact, 8136K Wired, 10M Buf, 47M Free > Swap: > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 488 root 1 16 0 10808K 10280K pause 0:00 5.27% csh > 490 root 1 41 0 10940K 10080K RUN 0:00 4.84% top > 487 root 1 8 0 10980K 10164K wait 0:00 4.31% login > 484 root 1 -8 0 9848K 9596K piperd 0:00 0.67% logger > 452 root 1 42 0 14724K 2208K select 0:00 0.00% sshd > 486 root 1 8 0 1656K 1396K nanslp 0:00 0.00% sleep > 483 root 1 8 0 10416K 1128K wait 0:00 0.00% sh > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > --=20 Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert
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