Trying FreeBSD on AR71XX

Oleksandr Tymoshenko gonzo at bluezbox.com
Thu Nov 15 09:30:21 UTC 2012


On 2012-11-15, at 12:38 AM, Mukunda Haveri <mukunda at pointred.co> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am currently trying out starting the freebsd kernel on AR7130 board.
> Midway through the booting process, I get an error "ELF Error : -13".
> Anyone has an idea what is going on ?
> 
> Additionally, when I try to boot the same image using a redboot loader, I
> get the following message,
> "Only absolute ELF images supported"
> I am stuck and would appreciate help.

AFAIR this one was due to wrong byte order of kernel ELF image. 
Try setting TARGET_ARCH to mipsel if it's not set or set to mips. 


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