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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:40:29 +0000
From:      Robert Crowston <crowston@protonmail.com>
To:        Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD under VMware ESXi ARM Fling
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> According to the ESXi devs, there is no SIO controller currently, and I b=
elieve this is required for the virtual serial ports to work
> https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition/bugs/1104

I do think this a requirement. Indeed, a UART is detected in your dmesg:

uart0: <16550 or compatible> mem 0x3fff03f8-0x3fff03ff irq 5 on ofwbus0
uart0: console (230400,n,8,1)

Is it not exposed on the host?

If we cannot debug, a verbose boot would at least add some colour. Could yo=
u add boot_verbose=3D"YES" to /etc/loader.conf?

I took a look at the instructions for getting this up and running on my own=
 Pi. It is certainly a lot of instructions. It is a shame they do not just =
provide a .img I could flash to an sdcard.

    -- RHC.





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