On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 11 November 2012 12:39, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At the moment HDMI output works only in a sense of video output for simple
>> frame buffer. I'm trying to get GPU support ported but not sure how much time
>> it will take. Eventually we'd like to get audio support too.
>
> How's the general, non-video support working out? Are there any random
> crashes or panics that people are seeing on R-PI right now?
So far, I haven't done very much, but it is stable enough to
natively build a bootable kernel; note the build machine on
my RPi boot message:
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 25 14:23:57 UTC 2012
root@raspberry-pi:/usr/src/sys/arm/compile/RPI-B arm
The two biggest obstacles right now are:
* Memory. There's a missing piece in the current boot sequence
that causes it to always default to 128MB memory. That makes
it hard to do much on a generic -CURRENT build. (The native kernel
above took a long time; swapping to SDHC is a little slow. ;-)
Related: Shipping RPis now have 512MB RAM; I'm pretty excited about that.
* Video console. You've probably noticed the exchanges on the list.
Apart from that, it's pretty promising. I'm optimistic that we're
no more than a couple of weeks from having a FreeBSD image
that a lot of folks can just download and use.
Tim
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