Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:52:00 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> To: George Abdelmalik <george@fork.id.au> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The future for support of BeagleBone Black and its variants Message-ID: <D8894318-D009-445B-A6F6-B189C2B36ED3@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1a77457f-319a-1025-f969-3c294dcc7432@fork.id.au> References: <1a77457f-319a-1025-f969-3c294dcc7432@fork.id.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, What are the changes to the DTS files? If there are problems with DTC handling the new files, please can you raise issues here: https://github.com/davidchisnall/dtc/issues If there are problems with the kernel’s handling of the dtb, please ignore me. David > On 10 Aug 2023, at 13:24, George Abdelmalik <george@fork.id.au> wrote: > > Hi all, > > For a long while now CURRENT has not been working on the BBB due to incompatible upstream changes in vendor DTS files. I know there are some patches available which at least get FreeBSD running but those have yet to be incorporated into the project's repository. > > This leaves me with the feeling that BBB support in FreeBSD is on the path to being dropped. Is there someone from the FreeBSD project that could speak directly to this? > > As a user it would be helpful to know if I should be searching of an alternate SBC platform or another OS for my projects. > > If it still remains the plan to keep supporting BBB into 14.0 and beyond then I'd like to know what work is missing to make that happen. I'm willing and able to help. > > Regards, > George. > > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What are the changes to the DTS files? If there are problems with DTC handling the new files, please can you raise issues here: <a href="https://github.com/davidchisnall/dtc/issues">https://github.com/davidchisnall/dtc/issues</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If there are problems with the kernel’s handling of the dtb, please ignore me.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">David</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On 10 Aug 2023, at 13:24, George Abdelmalik <george@fork.id.au> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>For a long while now CURRENT has not been working on the BBB due to incompatible upstream changes in vendor DTS files. I know there are some patches available which at least get FreeBSD running but those have yet to be incorporated into the project's repository.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This leaves me with the feeling that BBB support in FreeBSD is on the path to being dropped. Is there someone from the FreeBSD project that could speak directly to this?</span><br><span></span><br><span>As a user it would be helpful to know if I should be searching of an alternate SBC platform or another OS for my projects.</span><br><span></span><br><span>If it still remains the plan to keep supporting BBB into 14.0 and beyond then I'd like to know what work is missing to make that happen. I'm willing and able to help.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards,</span><br><span>George.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>
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