BSD licensed Broadcom VideoCore driver

[Tim Kientzle]

On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:

> Hello,
> The rpi foundation just posted this up.
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

There are two very basic pieces missing from the FreeBSD/RPI kernel right now:

 1) MMC driver.  Oleksandr had one in his github tree but it has not been merged to -CURRENT.  I think that's the only obstacle to building bootable SD images today.

 2) Framebuffer.  Documentation: http://elinux.org/RPi_Framebuffer
It looks like it might be a couple days work for someone to tie this into sysconf and get a working text console through the HDMI connector.

With both of the above, we would be able to build functional standalone FreeBSD/RPi images.  No doubt still a lot of rough edges, but that allow a lot more people to get involved.

Tim