RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit

[Diane Bruce]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 08:58:37AM -0300, Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
> On 11 June 2016 at 05:21, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> >> On 11 Jun 2016, at 05:58, Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8 June 2016 at 19:42, Shawn Webb wrote:
> >>> The hackathon has started!
> >>
> >>
> >> We could not finish it (so far) because there is a lot of work to be
> >> done (if we want to make it right this time and build a single image
> >> for all the 32 bits models - this isn't only about RPi 3).
> > And are there any plans to run arm64 on the RPi3?
> 
> Sure, that's what we are aiming for.
> 
> manu@ is working on the efi loader and I'm looking at firmware and u-boot.
> 
> Today we have two different images and if we follow the same
> principles we probably would add two more images for rpi 3 (32 and 64
> bits versions) and that would be a mess for newcomers.
> 
> But putting all the pieces together takes time... (especially when you
> don't have docs)

I'll be hunting you today at BSDCan since I now have an RPi3. I'm going
to continue using the rasppi uboot and see if we can get a FreeBSD
up from that using the HBSD as a starter.

- Diane
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