FreeBSD on the RaspberryPi 3

[Andrew Turner]

Try setting "init_uart_clock=3000000".

Andrew

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 14:49:43 -0600
Erik Moe <e.moe at rcn.com> wrote:

> My RaspberryPi 3 arrived last night.  I’ve taken the latest RPI-2
> snapshot and updated to the latest firmware.  I can tell it’s booting
> up, but it’s getting hung up somewhere.  I can’t tell where because
> the serial console is spitting out gibberish.  The serial console
> issue is not specific to FreeBSD.  I had the same issue trying to get
> the serial console working on Raspbian.  There is a thread discussing
> the problem here:  https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/22.  On
> Raspbian I was able to get around the serial console issue by adding
> "force_turbo=1” to the config.txt, but that doesn’t seem to work on
> FreeBSD.
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> > On Mar 4, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:57:48 -0700
> > Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I suspect that we'll need an aarch64 kernel and userland, at the
> >> very least, to make this work. Plus there's likely some dragons
> >> hiding in uboot / ubldr.  
> > 
> > Someone should try updating the firmware on the RPI2 image, and
> > teaching the kernel about the Cortex-A53 in cpufunc.c. I suspect
> > with these two FreeBSD will boot in AArch32.
> > 
> > Andrew
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