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Ganbold, a FreeBSD developer, now get FreeBSD booting on rockchip platform. Ganbold told us only basic stuffs, gpio, dwc usb host mode are working. But this is just a start :) If you are interested, ping ganbold at #radxa irc channel on freenode for more details.

How to boot FreeBSD

The instructions are at FreeBSD ARM wiki

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Radxa%20Rock

Ubuntu 13.10 amd64 rkflashtool build note:

1. install libusb.h by sudo apt-get -y install libusb-1.0-0-dev

2. use dmesg or lsusb to check radxa rock is connect ok:

dmesg:

[187435.036508] usb 2-1.1.3: new high-speed USB device number 49 using ehci-pci
[187435.141573] usb 2-1.1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=2207, idProduct=0006
[187435.141586] usb 2-1.1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[187435.141592] usb 2-1.1.3: Product: radxa rock
[187435.141598] usb 2-1.1.3: Manufacturer: radxa
[187435.141603] usb 2-1.1.3: SerialNumber: 16EM84955F

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 050: ID 2207:0006

we got device ID 0x0006, and modify rkflashtool.c line 49 from #define PID_RK3188 0x310b to #define PID_RK3188 0x0006

3. Use follow Makefile:

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all: rkflashtool

rkflashtool: rkflashtool.c
	gcc -o rkflashtool rkflashtool.c -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0/ -lusb-1.0 -O2 -W -Wall

clean:
	rm -f rkflashtool

param:
	sudo ./rkflashtool r 0x0000 0x2000 > /tmp/parm

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Boot log

Boot log can be found here:

http://radxa.com/2013/10/18/freebsd-11-0-is-booting-on-radxa-rock/

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