BSD licensed Broadcom VideoCore driver

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

On 2012-10-24, at 10:10 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
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>> 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:
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> 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.
I'm working on getting it into -CURRENT. Hope to finish by the end of the week.


> 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.
> 

Actually framebuffer should be working. You just need to uncomment several line in config file and add USB keyboard support.