Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:39:18 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Andrew Mitchell <andy_mitchell_fr@icloud.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 14.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <2CF8C129-6B34-46B2-9CF0-B1B51A498FE1@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <19A4F115-E9DE-49C1-9208-EFCF092E979D@icloud.com> References: <19A4F115-E9DE-49C1-9208-EFCF092E979D@icloud.com>
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On 2021-Mar-25, at 10:23, Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm = <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD and to Raspberry too. > uname -a shows a generic 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD on my RPi4 B. > Nowhere can I find any information about this version. Just addressing the above but only for one possible direction for what you are potentially after. You did not identify how you got FreeBSD installed. If it was via a snapshot download, you did not report which snapshot file you downloaded and put on media. Nor did you report the actual, full output of your uname command. I'm guessing that you are unclear on the identification of the commit that matches a snapshot that you downloaded or related information. So the below is notes about just that. Using examples from my context (that are not directly based on the main git branch but on a personal branch "mm-src"): # uname -a FreeBSD RPi4B 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT = mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 GENERIC-NODBG arm64 # uname -ap FreeBSD RPi4B 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT = mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 GENERIC-NODBG arm64 aarch64 # uname -apKU FreeBSD RPi4B 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT = mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 GENERIC-NODBG arm64 aarch64 1400005 1400005 (I recommend use of the last form.) In the above the version information specific to the commit involved is: mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 (yours would reference "main" instead of = "mm-src") 1400005 (for the kernel compatibility identification) 1400005 (for the "world" compatibility identification) (Installing an updated kernel without updating world is a way to make the last 2 distinct. But only some updates change the figures.) So, using a main example instead of my own personal branch: main-n245444-7381bbee29df The 7381bbee29df identifies the commit in main. The n245444 identifies how many commits have happened at or before (for a particular way of counting the branching structure history). For something like the snapshot of 14 that is at: = https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-CU= RRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210318-a771bf748f9-245511.img.xz that would be main-n245511-a771bf748f9 that would be displayed by uname by default. Note: The part of the file name that has the 24511 was only recently corrected to count the same way as uname's counts are done. So sufficiently old snapshots will not match uname's n?????? in that part of the file name. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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