BeagleBone Green

[Lars Engels]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:40:02PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
> George Rosamond:
> > Bernd Walter:
> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:25:47AM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Beaglebone Green eliminates microSD
> >>>
> >>> I was mistaken. It appears that Beaglebone Green has microSD, and adds a battery holder to keep the TOD clock running when no power is supplied.  
> >>
> >> Nice feature.
> >> On the other hand I don't like USB connectors for power and having the
> >> barrel plug was a good thing.
> >>
> > 
> > +1 on that.  There were cases in the past that I assume power was the
> > issue with a number of BeagleBone problems, such as mount USB sticks.
> > 
> > The OP question remains, though: has anyone installed FreeBSD on the
> > Green yet?  I'm curious about the support for groove and the associated
> > devices, and whether the "identical chipsets" are *really* identical.
> > We all know, by now, that the same label on a component is not
> > necessarily the same chipset.
> 
> Just a quick followup on this.
> 
> I picked up a BeagleBone Green today, and gjb@'s 10.2 image from
> 20150801 booted just as it does on the BBBlack.  Didn't yet attempt to
> copy from the microSD to eMMC yet.
> 
> Serial connections work fine with the FTDI j1/j4/j5 connections as with
> the BBBlack.
> 
> I posted the dmesg on NYC*BUG's dmesgd:
> 
> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2830
> 
> I haven't followed the status of pkg on arm recently, but pkg doesn't
> seem operational with the binary install:
> 
> root at beaglebone:~ # pkg
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg from
> pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly, please wait...
> pkg: Error fetching
> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:armv6/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found
> A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
> Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.

For HEAD you can use Sean Bruno's package repository:
http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages/11armv6-default/
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