BeagleBone?

Ian Lepore freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org
Mon Jan 16 00:44:36 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:05 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Just got a BeagleBone in the mail and so far, it seems like fun:
>  * Under $100
>  * Relatively modern Cortex-A8 ARM CPU (TI AM3358)
>  * Built-in Ethernet, USB console, etc.
> 
> So far,  I've gotten console access from my FreeBSD
> laptop and am starting to tinker with a nanobsd-like
> script to build a bootable SD image.  (By copying the
> MLO and u-boot.img files; nothing FreeBSD-specific yet.)
> 
> Next step:  Compile the arm/uboot boot loader and
> see if I can get that to load and run.
> 
> Anyone else tinkering with one of these?  Any
> hints?  ;-)
> 
> Tim

The freebsd-arm list would be the place for info.  There's still work to
do to get FreeBSD running on a Cortex-A8, last I heard.

-- Ian



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