Can't get 11.0-RELEASE to boot on Banana PI M3

[Mark Millard]

On 2016-Nov-27, at 11:46 PM, Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:

> Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> writes:
> 
>> I use one of those from adafruit for a BPi-M3, a RPI2B V1.1, or a Pine64.
> 
> (Thanks for the all the help on this!)
> 
> So I found one one of those, and did
> 
> cu -k /dev/cuaU0 -s 115200

I happen to use an old Mac OS X laptop to monitor the serial connection,
not FreeBSD. Even the software I use is from the App Store (better drivers
from what I read).

So I've not tried such with FreeBSD and have no observation
of what works vs. does not.

> from my FreeBSD host box: Absolutely nothing.  As per this:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/crochet/tree/master/board/BananaPi-M3
> 
> I tried reversing the pins, but that also didn't yield any output
> whatsoever.

Black <-> Gnd
Green <-> Rx (middle pin of the 3)
White <-> Tx

Red not connected

> Any suggestions?  I'd be cool if there were an image known to be working
> somewhere ...

Before I tried FreeBSD on the BPi-M3 I tried an Official Linux for
it. http://www.banana-pi.org/m3-download.html I knew up front that
there were no FreeBSD snapshot images or other such and I did not
want to confuse DOA power supplies or a DOA board or such with
problematical software builds/installations.

I tested the serial connection, HDMI, USB keyboard/mouse, and
Ethernet so I'd know what worked vs. what did not and that I
had my environment well set up. I know that, for example,
FreeBSD does not do HDMI yet for the BPi-M3. (All the more
important to check it up front.)

===
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net