From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sat Sep 5 23:48:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6B99CBDD4 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 23:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@potato.growveg.org) Received: from potato.growveg.org (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7152728C for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 23:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@potato.growveg.org) Received: from john by potato.growveg.org with local (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYNCA-00036N-0G for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:48:30 +0100 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 00:48:29 +0100 From: John To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping up-to-date on RPi2/FreeBSD11 Message-ID: <20150905234829.GA6572@potato.growveg.org> Reply-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <20150905125316.GB80713@potato.growveg.org> <20150905133519.c60e316b90b3205a5d482c01@ulrich-grey.de> <55EB46D2.1040003@blarg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55EB46D2.1040003@blarg.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: John X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: john@potato.growveg.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on potato.growveg.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:48:42 -0000 On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 12:47:30PM -0700, kah42pub wrote: > For what it is worth, these steps work for me to update an RPI2 in > place. A serial cable is definitely required. Most of this was taken > from the FreeBSD documentation. I've omitted steps that are specific to > my configuration. [snip - thanks for the info btw] > This process recently took me up to 11.0-CURRENT r287441 without a > hiccup on the RPI2. Hope it helps. If anyone sees anything obvious that > I didn't do that I should have for the upgrade process, feel free to > speak up. Will your method work for an image made by crotchet - ie will it boot the right kernel, does it update what crotchet installed? The original install was http://download.raspbsd.org/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI2-286947.img.gz > Also, powerd definitely works on RPI2. Having it enabled (allowing > stepped up CPU speeds under load) decreases the build world time by > hours - at least for me. Your mileage may vary. yep, I have powerd enabled now rather than setting turbo in /etc/sysctl.conf. I also have powerd_flags="-a hiadaptive" though am unsure if these flags have any effect on this arch. thanks, -- John