FreeBSD 11-CURRENT on Raspberry Pi 512MB

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama at peach.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've updated the image to SVN r274088 and cpufreq-20141106.
> 
> It can be downloaded from:
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI-B-test20-r274088-20141106.img.gz
> 
> include temperature in dev.cpu node
> add 256MB swap by default

You’ll need a lot more swap than this if you want to support native buildworld.  I’m using 768MB on my Beaglebones.

At one time, I experimented with startup scripts that would create the swap file on first boot if there was sufficient free disk space.  This is nice with growable images:  You can put a 2GB image onto a 32GB SD card and have the image automatically grow and allocate swap when it first boots.

> use tmpfs as /tmp and /var/tmp

I keep meaning to experiment and find a good setup for this.  Crochet’s Beaglebone images use tmpfs for /var/tmp and I keep running out of inodes when using mergemaster.


> 
> new tunable parameters in /boot/loader.conf:
> hw.bcm2835.cpufreq.verbose=1
> hw.bcm2835.cpufreq.lowest_freq=300
> 
> Try it yourself.
> Thank you,
> -- 
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