Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:11:16 +0200 From: George Abdelmalik <george@fork.id.au> To: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The future for support of BeagleBone Black and its variants Message-ID: <95f063b3-e122-cfa8-f9fd-9ca2365d663e@fork.id.au> In-Reply-To: <D8894318-D009-445B-A6F6-B189C2B36ED3@freebsd.org> References: <1a77457f-319a-1025-f969-3c294dcc7432@fork.id.au> <D8894318-D009-445B-A6F6-B189C2B36ED3@freebsd.org>
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Hi David, The problems are kernel related. If I understand correctly it's in the area of clock definitions I think but I've not properly studied the patches. DTC is good. Regards, George. On 10/8/23 14:52, David Chisnall wrote: > 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. >> >> >>
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