Getting started with freebsd-arm on Cubox-i2

[Brett Glass]

Ian:

Thank you! Interestingly, when I plugged in a USB cable from a 
Windows computer, it recognized the USB serial port (which means 
that the USB-serial chip was getting power) but did not seem to be 
powering the CuBox. But when I connected a separate 5V power 
supply, I got a bootstrap and was able to log in as root with 
PuTTY, using the password "root".

About half of the applications I will have for these boards will 
not require video support, and so I may want to do builds that are 
serial-only. On the CuBox-i2 which I have here, top(8) reports

Mem: 11M Active, 10M Inact, 19M Wired, 4081K Buf, 956M Free

which accounts for only 1000M of the 1024M -- suggesting that the 
remaining 24M are reserved for video. Or are they? On this chipset, 
is it possible to recover the video buffer RAM for general use in a 
"headless" system?

--Brett Glass

At 05:54 PM 12/27/2015, Ian Lepore wrote:

>The video support for imx6 chips was just committed a few days ago and
>isn't in the image you downloaded.  The cubox is likely booting just
>fine and sitting at a login prompt that you can't see.
>
>The cubox has a built in usb-serial adapter for the console.  Just plug
>a micro-usb cable into the slot to the right of the sdcard and connect
>it to any computer with a terminal program (on freebsd use cu -l
>/dev/cuaU0 -s 115200).
>
>-- Ian