Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 14:53:44 +0200 From: Dmitry Salychev <dsl@mcusim.org> To: Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> Cc: Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations Message-ID: <86o7mh6bl9.fsf@peasant.tower.home> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B1FSii0gYoVvR2FbfiG1mXAuKuwNnKun7zjfvj%2BfaCvjsEB1g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B1FSijfvQmaA-=tQ9UKWhHuxtgT1_W5T1hhipOtsQHPH9sMdg@mail.gmail.com> <20230518123259.55acf1fc@zeta.dino.sk> <CA%2B1FSii0gYoVvR2FbfiG1mXAuKuwNnKun7zjfvj%2BfaCvjsEB1g@mail.gmail.com>
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Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes: > Milan,why did you stop collaborating with me ? Suddenly you stopped > replying. What happened ? It's a little known fact that people on freebsd-arm are busy from time to time :) Applicable to the other FreeBSD lists though. > > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:33=E2=80=AFPM Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk= > wrote: > > On Thu, 18 May 2023 12:08:04 +0200 > Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello. > >=20 > > some days ago on the FreeBSD forum someone posted this tutorial: > >=20 > > https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd/part_1 > >=20 > > A lot of work has been done to port NetBSD on the pinephone, even if > > the battery will not work as stated. I would like to know if this > > tutorial can be taken as a solid base to port FreeBSD instead of > > NetBSD. In other words, is FreeBSD so different from NetBSD that the > > whole procedure can't be useful at all or some part of it can be > > re-adapted easily? How much efforts and work is needed to adapt it? > >=20 > > Hi, > > at a glance, this tutorial is worth reading as it contains good > overview of the whole process. The basics are there. Note it is using > *OpenBSD*, not *NetBSD* as you wrote, but this is just oversight I > think. For FreeBSD, you should probably try first running from microSD > card, not installing to internal eMMC (SD card image for arm64/aarch64 > architecture should be a good start, needs just adding correct U-Boot > binary). > > Regards, > Milan --=20 Open source software/hardware enthusiast hackaday.io/dsl | github.com/mcusim | patreon.com/salychev
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