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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 9c5a8261a63a009fdaa9f3da66d215b4; Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <6fa6afd3-f7b4-4cbb-8caf-6587775bbd8c@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:14:31 -0700 List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Need testers for ALPHA RPi-5 fan control, GE NIC, WiFi drivers for FreeBSD-CURRENT To: Jeremy McMillan , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" References: <9YCJYFriU7X2_37aSWQTo5jJSmaf46t827hI4KjmCLaCFNGbgMj4MxRzc4-sUSig2RolfvNOWikCxYuWL3YJfqMgw-5d4FDjG8xtnRGJyMY=@pm.me> Content-Language: en-US From: Mark Millard In-Reply-To: <9YCJYFriU7X2_37aSWQTo5jJSmaf46t827hI4KjmCLaCFNGbgMj4MxRzc4-sUSig2RolfvNOWikCxYuWL3YJfqMgw-5d4FDjG8xtnRGJyMY=@pm.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.25942 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.61 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.61)[-0.607]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[yahoo.com,reject]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[yahoo.com:s=s2048]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr:yahoo.com]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[yahoo.com:dkim]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[yahoo.com:+]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[98.137.64.204:from]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36647, ipnet:98.137.64.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[98.137.64.204:from] X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4gcg1m3szYz3yf9 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 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! 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.com