Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone...

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Thu Oct 11 18:22:46 UTC 2012


On Oct 11, 2012, at 13:31 , Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:

> George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:11 , Alie Tan <> wrote:
>> 
>>> Please share your image for Beaglebone and Raspberry Pi when possible.
>> 
>> That's an interesting idea, and one that we ought to look at.  Let me think
>> about that.  Remember that many of us will want to make production images,
>> with passwords, and won't be able to share them.
> 
> Personally I would also appreciate such images.
> 
> I'm following the -arm list for about two weeks because I would
> like to use FreeBSD on a small (as small as possible) board to
> control a small "gadget".
> 
> From what I've read so far, it seems that getting FreeBSD to run
> reliably on these boards is a time-consuming task that requires
> a lot of trial-and-error, applying patches from here and there,
> and so on.  This is somewhat discouraging, to the point that I
> would just use a Linux image (e.g. the one that's pre-installed
> on a Raspberry Pi), because it would save so much time.
> 
> If there was a FreeBSD image available for download that works
> out of the box on a particular board, with a list of features
> supported (e.g. "USB and GPIO work, SD cards don't work yet,
> ethernet works but is unstable"), that would be very welcome.
> 

It looks like people are putting those up (see Steven's comment)
but, I also think that what you might want is something closer
to a release image, and that's going to take a bit more work,
probably from re at .

Best,
George




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