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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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