From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sun Jul 14 08:19:46 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD7115DBF89 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob22.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob22.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.116]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.registeredsite.com", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5DF18E3F9 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:19:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail02pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob22.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x6E8JctK058206 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:19:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 46903 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jul 2019 08:19:38 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.177.25 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.177.25) by 0 with ESMTPA; 14 Jul 2019 08:19:38 -0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <26864b34-624a-075f-4a10-859314649d2f@blastwave.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:19:37 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C5DF18E3F9 X-Spamd-Bar: +++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [5.33 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[0.998,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx1.netsolmail.net]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[116.115.17.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(1.00)[1.000,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[blastwave.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19871, ipnet:209.17.112.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(1.44)[ip: (4.51), ipnet: 209.17.112.0/21(1.54), asn: 19871(1.23), country: US(-0.06)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:19:47 -0000 > I understand that there are not enough people in this area > and most of existed are interested in aarch64 but at the > same time imagine a *new* person who wants to do something > with FreeBSD on ARM and the step number one is to get > at lest something to work. So the person is reading wiki > and it says that BBB is well supported, ISO images > are generated regularly on the FreeBSD.org ftp site, consuming > a lot of CPU time and couple of hundreds of Mb of disk space, > so he 'dd' one of them,... second... third... > and obviously losing interest. > Then what should I think about other official ISO images? > Spend money buying BananaPi and get the same result as with BBB?.. > Does FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-PINE64.img.xz works > out of the box or only it's bleeding edge snapshot? > > For the sake of sanity just at least mark boards that are > not working as 'not working' in the wiki and/or do not > generate RELEASE images tailored to them i.e. *-BEAGLEBONE.img > Brilliant. I have the same issue with ppc64 and most certainly for RISC-V where we are really well and truely in outer darkness. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional