Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:45:29 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren_Schmidt?= <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Nenhum_de_Nos <lojas@arroway.org> Subject: Re: Nanopi R5S and U-boot from Ports Message-ID: <6A61F645-8CCC-4A7B-8174-75DD4E704437@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <06E04145-A74D-472E-B345-A594B0EC6BAE@yahoo.com> References: <aa13b88f36d8b4f608093fe5e4d2ea84.squirrel@10.1.7.91> <20250211121727.290f4ddccf5aa4d901f681d7@bidouilliste.com> <d0ba5a92dd1c51077b6246dd77a53e62.squirrel@10.1.7.91> <C9AC9AB3-1048-423F-9293-75A7EDB41835@gmail.com> <bcb1f570-f353-4616-b3ee-e79a7148074d@smeets.xyz> <06E04145-A74D-472E-B345-A594B0EC6BAE@yahoo.com>
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On 12 Feb 2025, at 19.39, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote >=20 >> I'm also using an OrangePi5, I was able to get a stable/14 working = with patches gathered from https://personalbsd.org/images/download/. >=20 > If the patches aren not based on tracking mainline Linux on the > schedule FreeBSD ends up using for updates, it seems unlikely > that FreeBSD will go that direction: no signficant, sustained > deviation from the upstream context seems likely. And that is exactly why FreeBSD support for many of these boards are = dysfunctional, as soon as one gets it working a new bunch of DTS files = are imported that breaks support left, right and center. This adds lots = of work for the maintainers. I (for one) have given up on playing catchup and just use my own tree, = much less grief and tooth grinding that way, still have the scars from = almost 10 years ago as maintainer of =E2=80=9Cstuff=E2=80=9D for over a = decade :) Happy to share with anyone that needs it though... -S=C3=B8ren=
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