Support for the Friendly Arm (mini 2440) development board

[Donn Miller]

--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz> wrote:

> From: Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>
> Subject: Re: Support for the Friendly Arm (mini 2440) development board
> To: "Donn Miller" <hackr_d at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 6:37 AM
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:53:08 -0700
> (PDT)
> Donn Miller <hackr_d at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I also attached the output from the serial console,
> showing an
> > attempt to boot a Linux arm kernel.  Note that
> mounting root was
> > unsuccessful (didn't install a small embedded
> distribution yet).
> > 
> > I figured this dmesg, though from Linux, will suffice
> to sufficiently
> > describe what this device is and if I can boot
> FreeBSD-arm on it.
> I have run FreeBSD on a mini2440 board before. Support for
> it is still
> in development as I've been working on support for NAND
> flash.
> 
> Unfortunately the kernel appears to not boot anymore due to
> an alignment fault early on in the boot process.

Were you able to get it to boot FreeBSD from a smartmedia card?  That would be another area that possibly needs working on as well.