FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:34:51PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote this message on Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:07 -0300:
> > On 8 October 2014 00:06, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > > Bernd Walter wrote this message on Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:04 +0200:
> > >> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:05:10PM -0400, AN wrote:
> > >> > Hi List:
> > >> >
> > >> > I have been using FreeBSD current on amd64 for many years.  I now have a
> > >> > project that I want to try to run on FreeBSD.  I'm trying to boot a
> > >> > FreeBSD image on a BeagleBone Black Rev C without success.
> > >> >
> > >> > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20140903-r270990.img
> > >> > FreeBSD-arm-10.0-BEAGLEBONE.img
> > >> >
> > >> > The above images fail to boot.
> > >>
> > >> Basicly the BBB works very well under FreeBSD.
> > >> Did you check the uart output?
> > >> I'm not sure if those images are build with grafic support and
> > >> there will be nothing on HDMI or attached LCD without it.
> > >> To be honest: I don't even know if we have support for that output
> > >> already with the BBB.
> > >
> > > We definately do not support output on HDMI...  I'm trying to get the
> > > datasheet so I can get HDMI output working...
> > 
> > Please, see: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2014-March/007822.html
> > 
> > Gonzo did the LCD driver (which feed data into HDMI framer) and tried
> > to port the TDA19988 HDMI framer driver.
> 
> Yeh, I got patches from him recently for this, but he said he was still
> having issues...  I'm waiting for the Foundation to get a proper spec
> sheet from NXP for the TDA19988...  I really don't like working blind..

Wasn't aware there is an NXP chip used, but I'm not surprised about the
datasheet completeness :-(
A quick look into the TDA19988 datasheet seems to leave out many
programming details.
This already had been a problem when they were named Philips.
Wouldn't be surprised if there is a separate programming PDF.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.