About FreeBSD support one more mini-pc

[Tom Everett]

Hey Ian, i am just about to ask for a pull from my repo with a working
ubldr for wandboard, if you wanted to take a look:

https://github.com/teverett/crochet-freebsd/commit/f61660c4134ef495cb5f7de26c2048fba1e65c8f


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:40 -0700, Warner Losh 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
> >
>
> I actually worked pretty hard to make the imx6 stuff work with the linux
> dts without a lot of our own extra properties thrown in.  I'm not sure
> it's 100% there.
>
> I need to get ublr working reliably with my wandboards, and then it's
> possible we could have a single unified imx6 kernel that worked for all
> imx6 boards.  When I last tried ubldr it would sometimes launch the
> kernel just fine and sometimes just mysteriously hang.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
>


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