The FreeBSD ARM team have completed the work to support multicore on ARM. You can read the announcement here. I’ve made a new build of FreeBSD ARM for Wandboard, which you can download here.
The dmesg output is here, and here is the sysctl showing four cores
[Kroot@wandboard:~ # sysctl -a | grep hw.ncpu hw.ncpu: 4
Adding Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD has been a project of mine for a while. After this fascinating kernel fix, I can now build a working image and boot FreeBSD-Current. Here is an example boot log, and here’s an image file. The output of dmesg, with a USB wireless adapter in the board, is: KDB:…
Image file here, boot log here.
I was curious to see how difficult it would be to compile NetBSD on FreeBSD 10. Once you have the source, there is a build.sh script which is very helpful. The build is as simple as: ./build.sh -m i386 tools ./build.sh -m i386 kernel=GENERIC release In my case I have both clang and gcc installed. I…
Image is here. Boot log is here.
FreeBSD-11 has support for i2c on Wandboard. The working boot image is here, and the boot log is here. In order to enable it, there were three steps Enable the kernel options Update the files.imx6 file Create the DTS mappings The kerne config for Wandboard-Quad is here, however, most of the kernel options for Wandboard…
I’ve updated the u-boot bootloader for Crochet-FreeBSD Wandboard to 2014-10, from 2014-07. The updated image is here, and the boot log is here.