Hi, You are probably aware of the new BeagleBoard Black ( http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black). Any chance OpenBSD would decently run on it any time soon? I am aware of the efforts posted here: http://www.openbsd.org/beagle.html and I'm keeping an eye on that page, hoping that support will be updated for the new version. Regards, Claudiu.
Dear Rob Sciuk, > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Marek Vasut wrote: > > Bootp is weird junk, just use tftp to transfer your files (using the > > 'tftp' command in U-Boot) and then 'bootm' that stuff. Note that the FDT > > location is passed to the kernel in one of the CPU registers, R2 IIRC. > > > > Best regards, > > Marek Vasut > > True, but dhcpd/bootp only knows about the kernel file ... when using the > dhcp protocol to download the file system, fdt and kernel, you have to > explicitly arrange for the files other than the kernel image to be loaded > into memory first. Hence the extension ... and yes, R2 contains a pointer > to the fdt (on PPC, not sure about ARM), but it has to get to RAM somehow > ... unless you have it in flash and are point to it directly ... Uh, so why not switch to tftp or nfs since it's much easier to work with ? Best regards, Marek Vasut
Oh thanks. Suppose i treated the allwinter as headless and just sshed in and was happy with CLI. Do i need a framebuffet still? I think of the framebuffer as been around forever and everything has it but what do i know. Max On Feb 22, 2013 12:28 PM, "Matthieu Herrb" <matthieu.herrb <at> laas.fr> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:15:14PM +0000, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > > Hi, > > > > From looking at the ARM platform information it isn't clear if there > > are any platforms supported that would be useful as a day-to-day > > graphical desktop for web browsing, email and the like? Video > > capability would be an unexpected bonus. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > No. Except on zaurus, which is probably too small as as desktop, there > is no framebuffer or X Window support on any of the OpenBSD arm > platforms. > > For a desktop machine, get an x86 machine with a supported graphics > card. Even a chip 5 or 6 years old machine will be perfectly usable. > -- > Matthieu Herrb
Related question The allwinter a10 reference design comes with hdmi out and most everyone has started out just dupping the reference design. The cubieboard seems to be generally unbuyable but the hackberry was apparently buyable this week. I kind of want to play with one with ooenbsd on it. And the hackberry seems to boot linux from the sd card which makes me think that if i could get the boot partition just right i could crosscompile to a card and just swap cards. Not like playing with a handmade serial cable. So i wonder what the status is on the openbsd side. I am not interested particularly in andrioid or touch screen issues but the mali gpu etc are i suspect a problem. Max On Feb 22, 2013 12:15 PM, "Laurence Rochfort" <laurence.rochfort <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > From looking at the ARM platform information it isn't clear if there > are any platforms supported that would be useful as a day-to-day > graphical desktop for web browsing, email and the like? Video > capability would be an unexpected bonus. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Cheers, > Laurence.(Continue reading)
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:15:14PM +0000, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hi, > > From looking at the ARM platform information it isn't clear if there > are any platforms supported that would be useful as a day-to-day > graphical desktop for web browsing, email and the like? Video > capability would be an unexpected bonus. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. No. Except on zaurus, which is probably too small as as desktop, there is no framebuffer or X Window support on any of the OpenBSD arm platforms. For a desktop machine, get an x86 machine with a supported graphics card. Even a chip 5 or 6 years old machine will be perfectly usable. -- -- Matthieu Herrb
Hi, From looking at the ARM platform information it isn't clear if there are any platforms supported that would be useful as a day-to-day graphical desktop for web browsing, email and the like? Video capability would be an unexpected bonus. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Laurence.
Hi, This is a dmesg of a PandaBoard ES i got my hands on yesterday. Didn't pass the 'root' argument as the sd is not properly formatted. Will try to do that tomorrow or during the weekend. If anyone wants to test something on this board, just say.. Thanks! Panda # reset resetting ... U-Boot SPL 2012.07 (Sep 22 2012 - 05:05:13) OMAP4460 ES1.1 OMAP SD/MMC: 0 reading u-boot.img reading u-boot.img U-Boot 2012.07 (Sep 22 2012 - 05:05:13) CPU : OMAP4460 ES1.1 Board: OMAP4 Panda I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0 Using default environment In: serial Out: serial(Continue reading)
Hi, I noticed that there has been some commits relating to arm/beagle/panda recently, so wanted to build a kernel. But the build fails with the below error. Should I be using some other TARGET, or is it something else I'm doing wrong? If anyone has build full build instructions for -current, can they post them here? Also, I noticed on the http://www.openbsd.org/beagle.html page, one of the "Projects & bugs left to fix" is "Add support for the SD/MMC controller." ... this has been done for a while now, hasn't it? Thanks, Brett. # cd /usr/src && make -f Makefile.cross TARGET=beagle MACHINE=beagle MACHINE_ARCH=arm MACHINE_CPU=arm; export MACHINE MACHINE_ARCH MACHINE_CPU; (cd /usr/src/lib; for lib in csu libc; do (cd $lib; eval AR=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/ar AS=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/as CC=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/cc CPP=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/cpp CXX=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/c++ LD=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/ld OBJCOPY=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat /usr/cross/beagle/TARGET_CANON`/bin/objcopy LORDER=/usr/bin/lorder RANLIB=/usr/cross/beagle/usr/`cat(Continue reading)
I have had a good amount of responses from people who have tested the arm diff on beagleboards. This is helpful, however this diff cannot be committed until I am able to test on existing arm platforms. More specifically I need to be able to test on the Zaurus. If you have a Zaurus and can help with this, I would appreciate it. This would allow things to move forward with the beagle port. Thank you, Brandon
Hello all, After many years away from doing any kind of low level programming, I'm making a two-pronged effort at re-learning Unix C development and ARM assembler. Would people be kind enough to recommend ARM boards that I can use to learn ARM assembler and which would also be useful for developing on OpenBSD? I loathe having to dig around on the Internet for documentation and education resources, so a board that includes comprehensive documentation and educational material is essential. Many thanks, Laurence.
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