Finally bringing FreeBSD to Parallella

[Thomas Skibo]

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:08:59 -0800
> Thomas Skibo via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I found the instructions I wrote a while ago on booting FreeBSD on Parallella and put it back on my site: http://www.skibo.net/zedbsd/#parallella .  It explains how to modify the Zedboard SD card image and
>> boot it on Parallella.  I updated the .dtb file in the tarball because the old one isn?t compatible with 11-release.  It would help if somebody could give this a whirl and give me feedback.
> 
> The instructions works. There is one small change: the bitstreams are no longer discussed in in Parallella's guide for creating an SD card. I just used a bistream I had from back when I got the card.
> The image created appears to work also, but I get no output on the serial console. Is this image supposed to have serial console?
> I use
> cu -l /dev/cuau0 -s 115200
> with a PL2303HX usb-to-serial cable

Thanks for the feedback.  Yes, it should output to the serial console.  Does u-boot output anything?

> 
> Also, which username and password can log in via ssh?
> I tried root/root, freebsd/freebsd and variations. Now I only get here:
> tingo at kg-core1$ ssg 10.1.161.32
> Warning: Permanently added '10.1.161.32' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
> Password for tingo at zedboard:
> Password for tingo at zedboard:
> Password for tingo at zedboard:
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

My image doesn’t have any default username/passwords.  Maybe I should add one.  I’ll look into what the other boards do.


> 
> HTH
> -- 
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>

Thanks,
—Thomas