Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:21:45 +0000 From: John F Carr <jfc@mit.edu> To: Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= <royger@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again Message-ID: <CA390EE5-3339-4A15-8087-C28B309FA523@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B1FSihU4WJWbbD9k9th4GXvyAKTL3URic-BAFUY7Og=wLn27A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B1FSihU4WJWbbD9k9th4GXvyAKTL3URic-BAFUY7Og=wLn27A@mail.gmail.com>
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Judging by a commit message BSD on the ARM Chromebook didn't work when support was removed in 2019. >RK* Exynos* and Meson*/Odroid* don't even work with current >source code, if someone wants to make them work again they >better use the Linux DTS. https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit?id=3D9dfa2a54684978d1d6cef67bbf6242e825= 801f18 I have one of the "snow" Chromebooks. The warnings in the web page https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook led me not to try FreeBSD. None of the many bugs seemed likely to ever be fixed. I'm not using it so I could try an experiment, but fighting with u-boot is not how I want to spend my days. Even the popular Raspberry Pi takes skill or luck. (So "build an arm6 world and copy X, Y, and Z to the DOS partition on your USB drive" is the kind of advice I need to supplement the old Chromebook wiki page.) There is at least a little value in getting it to work because the armv6 code is bit rotting and will go away entirely unless people use it. John Carr > On Jan 15, 2024, at 10:59, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Hello to everyone. >=20 > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14 natively on my ARM Chromebook model xe30= 3c12 ; I've found only one tutorial that teaches how to do that,that's it : >=20 > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook >=20 > The problem is that it ends with the installation of FreeBSD 11,that's ve= ry EOL. > I can't use it as is. I need to upgrade it to 14 (but I'm on arm 32 bit,t= hat's TIER-2,so I can't upgrade it automatically using the freebsd-update s= cript. It is also true that I can't install 14 directly on that machine,as = you can read below : >=20 >=20 > <unnamed.png> >=20 > I've looked all around and I found the tool pkgbase,that I'm talking abou= t on the FreeBSD forum,to understand if it allows the 11 to be usable or up= gradable. It does not seem to be the proper tool to achieve my goal. Do you= have any suggestions that can help me ? Thanks. >=20 > --=20 > Mario.
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