Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:14:31 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Jeremy McMillan <jtmcmillan@pm.me>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need testers for ALPHA RPi-5 fan control, GE NIC, WiFi drivers for FreeBSD-CURRENT Message-ID: <6fa6afd3-f7b4-4cbb-8caf-6587775bbd8c@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <9YCJYFriU7X2_37aSWQTo5jJSmaf46t827hI4KjmCLaCFNGbgMj4MxRzc4-sUSig2RolfvNOWikCxYuWL3YJfqMgw-5d4FDjG8xtnRGJyMY=@pm.me>
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On 5/29/26 17:42, Jeremy McMillan wrote: > > > If anyone has a Raspberry Pi 5 that's not dedicated to anything > important, I'd appreciate some help testing this: > > https://github.com/aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules <https://github.com/ > aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules> > > The README.md is up to date, but other docs in there might be stale. > > IDK if I should try to implement Bluetooth yet. I haven't tried using > FreeBSD bluetooth with working known-good drivers on supported hardware, > but when this is relatively complete I'm planning to do some bug fixing > and performance improvements where necessary in a BETA phase, then a > rewrite from scratch for maintainability that can be submitted to > FreeBSD-CURRENT. I know the repo says FreeBSD15, but I'm currently > building against FreeBSD-16-CURRENT. I've had feedback that the fan > control works fine on FreeBSD-15. > > I also don't know what I should do about GPIO testing. I'd appreciate > any pointers if other people work with RPi hardware and have any > pointers for testing GPIO stuff. I think there's a few pins that can do > DAC and ADC and others that can do PWM (like the ones used for the fan > header) when programmed to different modes. I have an oscilloscope, but > I'd like to automate testing as much as possible because my spare time > is precious. > > It seems like RPi-5 will be around for a while under the current market > conditions for the semiconductor business, and it is my hope that > FreeBSD can deserve and get more attention and support from Broadcom and > Raspberry Pi. Also, I have my own projects :) > > Thanks in advance for your attention! <https://github.com/aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules/blob/main/sys/arm64/conf/RPI5>; has: # ZFS Root Filesystem Support # Compiles ZFS filesystem driver directly into kernel # Essential for mounting zfs:pool/dataset root filesystem options ZFS The claim in the comments is false: FreeBSD's loader.efi can find and load both the kernel and zfs.ko for a ZFS based root. I have ZFS boot media for aarch64 which has no such special option: A standard aarch64 distribution. It works for booting the RPi5's just fine. -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhome | help
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