Anybody running a iMX8 board?

[Phishfry]

Inbound I have a SolidRun Hummingboard Pro2 carrier board with iMX8 Dual Core.

I know thanks to Ian@ we have some support for IMX8 but I don't know what boards.

Anybody running NXP iMX8 on FreeBSD?

Renesas HummingBoard RZ Series : SolidRun

The HummingBoard RZ Series is a family of SBCs that provides the most innovative and flexible IoT/HMI platforms based on Renesas RZ SoCs.

www.solid-run.com

 

[covacat]

you may install/extract one of their debian images and look at the dtb devices
then grep the compat string thru the freebsd source
you need clocks, uart, sdhc/mmc, ethernet, usb, pinctrl
i extracted a dtb from one u-boot image they provide and it seems it won't work
at least clocks and pinctrl wont work

 

[Phishfry]

SolidRun is not exactly know for commiting their work into upstream u-boot so I will have to use their distro.
40 bucks I had to give it a whirl.
I am really happy with Hummingboard 1 and Hummingbord 2. Both use same SOM. Interchangeable with dtb for both.
Hummingboard 1 works best for me with OpenWRT. FreeBSD has no PCIe bus support for iMX6 so I shopped around.
Hummingboard 2 works nice on FreeBSD for GPIO and HDMI is supported. mSATA is supported as is 3G/USB slot.

I am sure the same for HummingboardPro. Even if it has clk/pinctl support the use would be limited without PCIe bus.

I do like that it is a step up to aarch64 from armv7.