Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:19:37 -0400 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black Message-ID: <26864b34-624a-075f-4a10-859314649d2f@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com>
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> I understand that there are not enough people in this area > and most of existed are interested in aarch64 but at the > same time imagine a *new* person who wants to do something > with FreeBSD on ARM and the step number one is to get > at lest something to work. So the person is reading wiki > and it says that BBB is well supported, ISO images > are generated regularly on the FreeBSD.org ftp site, consuming > a lot of CPU time and couple of hundreds of Mb of disk space, > so he 'dd' one of them,... second... third... > and obviously losing interest. > Then what should I think about other official ISO images? > Spend money buying BananaPi and get the same result as with BBB?.. > Does FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-PINE64.img.xz works > out of the box or only it's bleeding edge snapshot? > > For the sake of sanity just at least mark boards that are > not working as 'not working' in the wiki and/or do not > generate RELEASE images tailored to them i.e. *-BEAGLEBONE.img > Brilliant. I have the same issue with ppc64 and most certainly for RISC-V where we are really well and truely in outer darkness. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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