Finally bringing FreeBSD to Parallella

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Sun Jan 15 19:01:54 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 21:51 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:08:59 -0800
> Thomas Skibo via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I found the instructions I wrote a while ago on booting FreeBSD on
> > Parallella and put it back on my site: http://www.skibo.net/zedbsd/
> > #parallella .  It explains how to modify the Zedboard SD card image
> > and
> > boot it on Parallella.  I updated the .dtb file in the tarball
> > because the old one isn?t compatible with 11-release.  It would
> > help if somebody could give this a whirl and give me feedback.
> The instructions works. There is one small change: the bitstreams are
> no longer discussed in in Parallella's guide for creating an SD card.
> I just used a bistream I had from back when I got the card.
> The image created appears to work also, but I get no output on the
> serial console. Is this image supposed to have serial console?
> I use
> cu -l /dev/cuau0 -s 115200
> with a PL2303HX usb-to-serial cable
> 

Was this just a typo in the mail?  The usb serial device is cuaU0,
uppercase U.

-- Ian



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