What is the state of FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug?

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2010-02-23, at 12:34, Matthias Rampke 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 less out-of-date.

The current state of FreeBSD on the plug is the following:

- all connectivity of the device is supported (Ethernet, USB), except for SD/MMC (the driver is already written and works, but has not been committed to the public tree, as it needs to be cleaned up a bit, which I haven't gotten around to yet)

- the above applies to both 8-STABLE and HEAD

> 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.

The wiki [3] fully applies, it only shows example snippets from some dev boards; all other details are valid for the SP case. The wiki only shows netbooting approach, but this should give you a starting point.

BTW: the last BSD Magazine issue had an article by Don Hayford about running FreeBSD on the plug. HTH.

Rafal

> [1] http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/FreeBSD_8.0_%28current%29_Plug_Computer_Distribution
> [2] http://www.openplug.org/plugwiki/index.php/FreeBSD_9.x_%289-current%29_Plug_Computer_Distribution
> [3] http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell