FreeBSD 10.x on Raspberry Pi 2
Zane C. B-H.
v.velox at vvelox.net
Fri May 15 08:48:29 UTC 2015
On Thu, 14 May 2015 21:01:31 -0700
Tim Gustafson <tjg at tgustafson.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see there's a snapshot image for RPIB in the 10.x snapshot
> folder, and an RPI2 image in the 11.x snapshot folder. I have 10.x
> running on my RPIB but can't seem to get the 11.x image to boot on
> the RPI2. (It hangs on the rainbow screen.) I know the 11.x
> branch is under heavy development still, so I was wondering what
> the prognosis is for building a 10.x image for the RPI2. I'm
> finding a lot of conflicting information on Google and I suspect
> that's because the RPI2 is fairly new, so I was hoping someone here
> could give me the definitive answer for how to get 10.x on an
> RPI2. If I do a build/install world on the RPIB with the most
> up-to-date 10.x source, will that give me a bootable installation
> that I could take the SD card out of the RPIB and drop it into the
> RPI2? Or do I have to cross compile from an Intel machine and then
> use crochet?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers and help.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
From the looks of that, as long as you have /boot/kernel mounted when
you do the make kernel, you will be fine.
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