FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 512MB (with U-Boot + ubldr)

Oleksandr Tymoshenko gonzo at bluezbox.com
Fri Nov 30 01:02:17 UTC 2012


On 11/29/2012 12:04 PM, Daisuke Aoyama wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The recent change about "fdt addr" is very interesting.
>
> So, I'm building with FreeBSD 10-current(svn 243675 + 
> fdt-memreserve.diff).
> It needs some little modification to U-Boot.
>
> My first impression is "The time is not stable".
> However, it works on Raspberry Pi w/512MB! Thank you for porting.
>
> You can download my test binary from:
>
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/freebsd-pi-20121130.img.gz
>
> Download and decompress it, then write it to SD.
> This image requires SD 4GB or more.
> I'm using as headless. So, you need a serial console for seeing the 
> boot log.
> If you need to change the value on it, please mount the second 
> partition (e.g. /dev/da0s2a).
>
> Note: first time, it takes about 2 minutes due to generate the SSH keys.

Thanks for testing! I'm putting together new instruction on how to build 
image.

>
>
> BTW, SDHCI is not yet stable?

There is one issue with setting SDHCI clock. I'll commit fix later today.


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