What is the state of FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug?

Kristof Provost kristof at sigsegv.be
Tue Feb 23 14:01:04 UTC 2010


On 2010-02-23 12:34:23 (+0100), Matthias Rampke <matthias at rampke.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been considering installing FreeBSD on the Marvell SheevaPlug for
> some time, but I can't seem to find any recent info on what works and
> what doesn't. The various wiki pages [1][2][3] all seem to be more or
> less out-of-date.
> 
> So, I'd especially like to know which devices work and where
> installation is possible, both in 8-STABLE and 9-CURRENT, and if
> someone already made a binary distribution of some kind.

I tried a little while ago with 9-CURRENT and got it to boot with an
NFS mounted rootfs (loading the kernel over tftp, from U-boot).
The network interface obviously works but I haven't tested anything
else.
As far as I'm aware there are no binary distributions for it.

Regards,
Kristof


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