FreeBSD 10.1 / 11 on a Raspberry Pi B+ / 2 ?

[Mark Felder]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015, at 12:28, Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
> On 22 April 2015 at 13:49, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> > On 16.04.15, Dan Raymond wrote:
> >
> >> I'm also interested in swapping out my B+ for a Raspberry Pi 2 but I am
> >> waiting on FreeBSD support.
> >
> > Me too. There is already a RPI2 kernel Profile in /sys/arm/conf/. But there
> > is no way to boot such kernel, the u-boot bootloader is not compatible to the
> > Cortex-A7. Linux (rasbian) is using two different kernels for bcm2835 and
> > the new bcm2836 (which includes A7) (which are booted directly at this stage
> > instead of u-boot). So we need also two u-boot binaries?
> >
> > I'm not sure what else is missing.
> >
> > -Andreas
> 
> Yes, that is right, we need a different u-boot for it.
> 
> I'm working on the new u-boot, it's working already, its a matter of
> tidy up the port and get everything in its place.
> 
> This will probably mean a new template for crochet (or writing down
> the required steps on wiki).
> 
> I hope it is ready by the end of week.
> 

This is excellent. I am anxious to use FreeBSD on my Pi2