FreeBSD on the RaspberryPi 3

[Erik Moe]

My RaspberryPi 3 arrived last night.  I’ve taken the latest RPI-2 snapshot and updated to the latest firmware.  I can tell it’s booting up, but it’s getting hung up somewhere.  I can’t tell where because the serial console is spitting out gibberish.  The serial console issue is not specific to FreeBSD.  I had the same issue trying to get the serial console working on Raspbian.  There is a thread discussing the problem here:  https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/22.  On Raspbian I was able to get around the serial console issue by adding "force_turbo=1” to the config.txt, but that doesn’t seem to work on FreeBSD.

Erik


> On Mar 4, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:57:48 -0700
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> I suspect that we'll need an aarch64 kernel and userland, at the very
>> least, to make this work. Plus there's likely some dragons hiding in
>> uboot / ubldr.
> 
> Someone should try updating the firmware on the RPI2 image, and
> teaching the kernel about the Cortex-A53 in cpufunc.c. I suspect with
> these two FreeBSD will boot in AArch32.
> 
> Andrew
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