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

[Tim Kientzle]

On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:50 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 
> Just FYI I did a new build from sources last night and the scripts are working
> fine for producing a bootable/usable image on the BeagleBone.  Networking now
> seems to be fixed as well, which is great.  It was 12:30am when I got that done
> so I didn't have time to try the RaspberryPi, but that's next on my list.D

The (increasingly misnamed) beaglebsd.sh can now build
bootable RaspberryPi images.  Let me know if you can reproduce
this.  Here's the config.sh script I'm using:

  board_setup RaspberryPi
  # Make a very small image
  SD_SIZE=$((100 * MB))
  # Don't bother installing world
  unset FREEBSD_INSTALL_WORLD



BIG CAVEAT #1:  No root filesystem.

No one has yet merged Oleksandr's MMC drivers into
-CURRENT, so the boot fails when it tries to mount
root.   I haven't tried mounting root over USB or NFS yet.


BIG CAVEAT #2:  This is *only* with the serial console.

I'm using the serial/USB adapter from Adafruit, which
works quite well; it even provides power to the board.


BIG CAVEAT #3:  Serial console keyboard is broken.

Getting to a loader prompt is tricky but the keyboard
seems okay there if you can get to the prompt.
The mount root prompt is unusable.


Small issue:   Memory size is wrong.  Kernel's
getting it from ubldr which gets it from U-Boot
which apparently has it hard-coded (?).


I'm tinkering with having start.elf load FreeBSD kernel
directly, bypassing U-Boot and ubldr.  It's certainly
not trivial.


Tim