About FreeBSD support one more mini-pc

[Tom Everett]

It looks like there is a u-boot configuration created:

http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=Building_the_kernel_and_u-boot_for_the_CuBox-i_and_the_HummingBoard

I don't see a dts file immediately apparent on their wiki.



On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Warner Losh <wlosh at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Tom Everett wrote:
>
> > I would happily build a crochet-FreeBSD build for this, if it had a
> chance
> > of working.   I don't see a kernel config or any .dts files for this
> board
> > on the tree, however, so those would have to be built out?
>
> Doesn't the board maker give yon ones that work on Linux? DTS is
> designed to be OS agnostic, but doesn't always achieve that design
> goal. Starting from Linux files typically is a good place to begin,
> although
> from conversations with Ian I know that the iMX stuff falls farther from
> the
> goals than others, so some manual tweaking would be in order...
>
> Warner
>
> > ps:I'm happy to buy my own hardware for it.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 22:30 +0600, Гуляев Гоша wrote:
> >>> Good day!
> >>>
> >>> I see very interesting devices availaible here:
> >> http://imx.solid-run.com/
> >>> That devices based on Freescale i.MX6 chipsets.
> >>>
> >>> And my question is:
> >>> 1. Is FreeBSD has has support that platform?
> >>> 2. If not, is it interesting for any developers, that I'm buy that
> >> device for you and you will play with it and bring FreeBSD support on
> it? :)
> >>
> >> We have some support for imx6 now, and we're actively working to expand
> >> it.  Devices that work include uart, sdcard, ethernet, and usb.  We
> >> don't have wifi, audio, or video drivers yet.  We don't have SMP yet,
> >> although some people have patches that have it working with perhaps some
> >> stability issues.
> >>
> >> I wouldn't expect too much trouble to get that box booting, but be sure
> >> to get a model that has a serial console port, since we don't have video
> >> drivers for a console yet.
> >>
> >> -- Ian
> >>
> >>
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