How does FreeBSD work with the GPIO pins, and also things like i2c ? I'd love to not use Linux, but i use my Raspi as more than just a tiny computer
I put FreeBSD on my Raspberry Pi B a few months back. (Similar images were previously published as well.)<p>I had to abandon the project, though, because there were very limited binary ports and base-system updates available. Compiling things on the Pi is a pain when possible at all. I did get a fairly decent cross-compile setup going, but in the end, it was more trouble than it was worth.
Why aren't such images available at the official location <a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/" rel="nofollow">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/</a> (or a mirror) ?
That's awesome, it's always great to have more choices of OS. Cool to see they're looking at other boards like the BeagleBone Black too.
I've tried freeBSD in a Raspberry Pi 1, but I couldn't get any binaries precompiled for ARM :(. I would like to have an easy way to cross-compile ports from my main machine.