Utilite support
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
Thu Nov 20 19:13:08 UTC 2014
On 11/20/14 09:19, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 17:45 +0100, Waschbüsch Martin wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I just read on https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/imx6 that Utilite
>> might also be supported. Has anyone managed to install FreeBSD
>> on such a device? Or could give me some pointers on how to do it?
>> The unit I have is the Utilite Pro (quad core with 2G RAM and internal
>> mSata SSD). I have looked at the crochet script but have not yet
>> managed to get the thing to booting.
>>
>> Any and all help is appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martin
>
> I'm the one who added that "might be..." on the basis that the Utilite
> setup looks close enough to Wandboard that it should be "easy" to get it
> working, for some loose definition of "easy". When I wrote that I had
> planned to buy one and get it working, but they're just too expensive
> for what they include so I never did.
>
> What I did do a few days ago is buy the new SolidRun Cubox i4pro v2, it
> should be here soon. That will give me some idea of how easy or hard it
> is to get freebsd running on some imx6 box that isn't a wandboard (and
> isn't one of our custom systems at $work).
>
> There is some chance that "it might just work." Actually a better
> chance now than when I originally wrote that. :) Try using crochet for
> wandboard and in the wandboard kernel config file change FDT_DTS_FILE to
> "imx6q-cm-fx6.dts". There's a good chance you'll end up with a bootable
> image on an sdcard.
>
> You will need a serial console for debugging, we don't support a video
> console yet on imx6 systems. The Compulab FitPc2 x86 systems need a
> special serial debugging cable that you have to buy separately. I hope
> that's not also the case with Utilite.
>
I've been doing on-again off-again testing of FreeBSD on utilite. This
is great info Ian, I am hoping that now that my dayjob has just hit our
US holiday's release freeze I'll have some time next week to test again.
-pete
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