B balanga Oct 25, 2017 #1 I have a Satellite STB which I can ssh into and it is running some flavour of Linux. How can I establish its architecture and find out if it capable of running FreeBSD?
I have a Satellite STB which I can ssh into and it is running some flavour of Linux. How can I establish its architecture and find out if it capable of running FreeBSD?
OP B balanga Oct 25, 2017 Thread Starter #3 tobik@ said: uname -a Click to expand... Code: Linux vusolo 3.1.1 #1 Thu May 8 08:44:38 CEST 2014 mips GNU/Linux I see that MIPS is supported (to some extent)... https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/mips.html https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips How would I find out which CPU and board is being used on my STB (sorry for asking such Linux specific questions....).
tobik@ said: uname -a Click to expand... Code: Linux vusolo 3.1.1 #1 Thu May 8 08:44:38 CEST 2014 mips GNU/Linux I see that MIPS is supported (to some extent)... https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/mips.html https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips How would I find out which CPU and board is being used on my STB (sorry for asking such Linux specific questions....).
SirDice Administrator Staff member Administrator Moderator Oct 25, 2017 #4 Commands are fairly similar to the BSD's. Have a look with dmesg(8).
OP B balanga Oct 25, 2017 Thread Starter #5 For anyone interested, this page shows a few useful commands:- https://www.maketecheasier.com/check-hardware-information-linux/
For anyone interested, this page shows a few useful commands:- https://www.maketecheasier.com/check-hardware-information-linux/
OP B balanga Oct 25, 2017 Thread Starter #6 My STB reports Code: system type: BCM7325B0 STB platform cpu model: Brcm4380 V4.12 FPU v0.0 To me it looks like a no no as far as trying to run FreeBSD on this device...
My STB reports Code: system type: BCM7325B0 STB platform cpu model: Brcm4380 V4.12 FPU v0.0 To me it looks like a no no as far as trying to run FreeBSD on this device...
