Creating FreeBSD/arm bootable SD card for Cubieboards from FreeBSD 11.0 image files for Wintel only users.

[John W. Kitz]

Warner,

> In lieu of the availability of an image file for one of the more recent Cubie products I am planning to give it a try on a cubieboard2.

You're unlikely to have a good day doing that.

JKi: Please elaborate. The names "FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-arm-armv6-CUBIEBOARD.img.xz" and "FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-arm-armv6-CUBIEBOARD2.img.xz" do suggest that these particular images are specifically aimed at cubieboard 1 and 2 hardware or am I overlooking something?

> Does anybody on this list happen to know if future FreeBSD releases are planned to include images for more recent Cubie hardware?

Which specific hardware? In the embedded space, there's no standardization, so even minor variants can need their own u-boot.  We may have a u-boot ready for that...

JKi: At this point either the cubieboard 3 or 4 seem to suite my requirements best, but given that the image naming convention does seem to suggest that there is no image available for either yet, I thought I'd give it a try using the cubieboard2 first.

Regards, Jk.