Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:41:46 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black Message-ID: <e43cb386-b1db-9cc0-1132-1ae9b2994344@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> <900bc3467c7e28f58e8e6cf17e881bdefcb3b751.camel@freebsd.org> <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --xFNwUiK8msfiQUo4V9YcoGi0VbJaqypl5 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="NBwMEkRGysVSbIDI6U5lb2QYpjidTLniS"; protected-headers="v1" From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Message-ID: <e43cb386-b1db-9cc0-1132-1ae9b2994344@m5p.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> <900bc3467c7e28f58e8e6cf17e881bdefcb3b751.camel@freebsd.org> <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com> --NBwMEkRGysVSbIDI6U5lb2QYpjidTLniS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2019-07-14 13:44, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: >> [...] Two or three years ago it looked like arm was at the point where= it >> should be a tier-1 platform, and I put a lot of effort into things lik= e >> testing releases, because releases that actually work seem like an >> important thing for a tier-1 platform.=20 >=20 > I will have to admit ignorance of the past history, so I can't address > what went wrong there. >=20 > But my own view as a very casual user of arm is this: >=20 > - we need more people doing testing (both releases and snapshots), and= > reporting the results. >=20 > - we need to be better about gathering that information together. > [...] Both of you are right. But despite my own forlorn hope a few years back that ARM would become a fully-fledged Tier 1 platform, the fragmentation of the market has made it impossible. But I still hope that maybe three or four widely popular ARM boards (Raspberry Pi being the most obvious possibility) might individually be declared Tier 1. -- George --NBwMEkRGysVSbIDI6U5lb2QYpjidTLniS-- --xFNwUiK8msfiQUo4V9YcoGi0VbJaqypl5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEENdM4ZHktsJW5kKZXwRES3m+p4fkFAl0rd3IACgkQwRES3m+p 4fmj9g//Sdpoeonyfog10YGBFJrlrNf4YG3yuYDAlrPRMUmL63NzaG9clq1BSLk0 0TdKIObQ/lUhyweBjCl3cUdhvLuQ/k94HGP2FmTFkyWVqZweKjHEMjQblbJaRwIt oboxWiHY7uHvebOi25fB6Uzr0a3KHTAEx6GJucNqEMxvHjfYr1bJtA1Z8lj5HwcV tNBBsnXQ1/YtTi1x7T1h+ECexuKx9bnS6Y8XF/IjwOfpQcHWlWWMT+u55bnTp+6i DznOLgVufFqjVYz2Hgso+fQn36EyxTloqTc6SZixOLFGEL0SU1VVE2ByuQsCFh/0 6g+twfulTMLA6bTwO+/zjosWJSKJ66DKr201TG7cjJHOytDMoYrexuo8MWVikZaK qWrgEAkk3F3AtCHdGvp/WVKmFYQSodM7ONCjDKI31hzZ2vfGA3z/YMoI1CBZR5IG UsKl1Cevc1EQTlwsIg5sP7ttG8zwjv9FD3P/4l1ijLaotJCTeKtZ/WR2/xojSQ7I jac/3GGLl0CzvXOA1dkRxF9FTtSQMTiOuX1Tn852d/VmlrjryVx/jIMFeP91AGwG EhQ+3gaez7chgQhS259yN4rcpDRq+HD8/mWixFKa+b1kHhSQj6tm5frDcCemz2sK /SgBUersTjUlkLIilsyjjLjelKa9PtrZ5F4YSk7x2tDdycgs7TE= =2Cno -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xFNwUiK8msfiQUo4V9YcoGi0VbJaqypl5--
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