Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:34:35 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Andy McClements <ajm@ip-ether.net> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RPi4b 8GB - kudos to OBSD Message-ID: <00802F30-4151-4D5E-8560-FF0100AE7218@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <0cfbea05-a00c-f8f6-1044-a98e43c11506@ip-ether.net> References: <0cfbea05-a00c-f8f6-1044-a98e43c11506@ip-ether.net>
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On Jan 9, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Andy McClements <ajm@ip-ether.net> wrote: > I trust this message does not breach any term-of-use for this list. >=20 > However I thought it worth saying that the OpenBSD team have done a = great job with their support for the RPi4b 8GB. I used the release = version of 6.8 arm64 (miniroot68.img), and the 1.22 release of = https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/. >=20 > 8GB RAM > USB: all working > GENET: working (not quite as fast as FreeBSD) > USB boot: no problemo >=20 > This is working fully in pure ACPI mode, NO DEVICE-TREE ! (As far as = OS is concerned). >=20 > The only manual intervention required during installation was to copy = the EDK2 boot files to the DOS partition. >=20 > The system has not been fully tested yet but so far it appears that = 'everything works' :) FWIW, the same is true of NetBSD on RPi 4, too. > However I am hoping to continue keeping this shop a 'FreeBSD shop'. = Shame the FreeBSD 'genet' driver has no ACPI support.. I, too, hope to be able to switch back over to FreeBSD if/when its = Raspberry Pi support improves. I do acknowledge, though, that FreeBSD = developers have historically seen it as not a priority for developer = time and resources due to the "closed" nature of its documentation = making it difficult to work on. I respect that stance. Cheers, Paul.
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