RPi 2 B+?

Dan Raymond draymond at foxvalley.net
Tue Feb 3 00:57:39 UTC 2015


On 2/2/2015 9:08 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>  From someone at the RPI foundation:
>
> "All peripheral blocks detailed in the BCM2835 datasheet are
> applicable to BCM2836. The only thing that's changed in regards to
> these bits is the peripheral register set base address - which I
> believe is now placed at 0x3F000000."
>
> still requires an updated uboot and some new glue for the new SoC (DTS
> files, for example.)
>
>
>
> -adrian

Will any changes be needed for FreeBSD to take advantage of SMP now that 
the Raspberry Pi has 4 cores instead of 1?  I imagine compiling for 
ARMv7 instead of ARMv6 will incur performance improvements. Will that be 
a simple transition?  It will also be nice to have access to 
pre-compiled ports.


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