Raspberry Pi Zero

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 07:16:37 UTC 2015


For what it's worth, I found this the other day...

https://www.bidouilliste.com/blog/2015/11/27/Porting-FreeBSD-to-a-new-ARM-Board-Part-1/

Cheers,
Russ



On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 5, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Erik Moe <e.moe at rcn.com> wrote:
> >
> > I got my hands on one of the new Raspberry Pi Zeros.  I was curious if
> would run the latest version of FreeBSD so I downloaded the latest
> snapshot, FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20151130-r291495.img.
> Unfortunately it doesn’t boot.  There is no output to the console and the
> activity LED doesn’t light.  I know there was a new release of Raspbian
> Jessie to support the Zero and I was successful in getting that to run, but
> I was wondering if anybody knew what the issue might be and what it would
> take to get FreeBSD to run on the Zero.
>
> I haven’t looked, but most likely a new u-boot and/or other firmware is
> required. From what I understand of the board itself, though, the RPI-B
> kernel has an excellent chance of running on it.
>
> Warner
>
>


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