does arm64-rpi3 snapshot work?

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 23 Mar 2016, at 14:04, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:00:39AM -0400, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
>> I tried booting my Raspberry Pi 3 with this snapshot:
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~andrew/arm64/rpi3-20160306.img.xz
>> 
>> I also tried to build one from this branch:
>> https://github.com/zxombie/freebsd/commits/arm64-rpi3
>> 
>> I tried updating to the latest firmware, but I still get a
>> rainbow screen every time.
>> 
>> Is there anything obvious that I'm missing?
> 
> Hey Nikolai,
> 
> I believe the snapshots are meant more for connecting a serial cable up
> to the RPI3 rather than using the HDMI output. RPI3 support itself is
That snapshot supports the serial interface, but it has no modules build
not does it have support for the ethernet interface.
> very immature at this point. Only one of the four cores is activated.
> I'm sure Andrew Turner and others could probably shed more light on
> what work has been done and what's left to do.
That would be great. Especially, if the RPI-3 is on their agenda...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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