Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:39:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG, gnn@neville-neil.com, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... Message-ID: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <448AAEF2-617E-4A6C-88BF-CE63FF30FA85@neville-neil.com>
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George Neville-Neil wrote: > On Oct 11, 2012, at 13:31 , Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > Personally I would also appreciate such images. > > > > I'm following the -arm list for about two weeks because I would > > like to use FreeBSD on a small (as small as possible) board to > > control a small "gadget". > > > > From what I've read so far, it seems that getting FreeBSD to run > > reliably on these boards is a time-consuming task that requires > > a lot of trial-and-error, applying patches from here and there, > > and so on. This is somewhat discouraging, to the point that I > > would just use a Linux image (e.g. the one that's pre-installed > > on a Raspberry Pi), because it would save so much time. > > > > If there was a FreeBSD image available for download that works > > out of the box on a particular board, with a list of features > > supported (e.g. "USB and GPIO work, SD cards don't work yet, > > ethernet works but is unstable"), that would be very welcome. > > > > It looks like people are putting those up (see Steven's comment) > but, I also think that what you might want is something closer > to a release image, and that's going to take a bit more work, > probably from re@. Well, yes ... Since ARM ist still a tier-3 platform (AFAIK), releases probably won't happen in the near future. I've seen Steven's comment. That's the direction that I had in mind. Much appreciated -- Thank you, Steven! Of course I'm aware that such images haven't gone through extensive testing and quality assurance like release images. But it's something that gets people started very quickly who just want to try it out without wanting to (or being able to) build a working system image themselves. Or people who would like to evaluate the platform for a certain purpose (like me). I'm sure that ready-made images will help in spreading and popularizing the platform, and maybe it'll even attract more developers to improve it and port it to more boards, and get it to tier-2 more quickly. But maybe that's just wishful thinking. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible." -- John William Chambless
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