Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations

Milan,why did you stop collaborating with me ? Suddenly you stopped
replying. What happened ?

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:33 PM Milan Obuch <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2023 12:08:04 +0200
> Mario Marietto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > some days ago on the FreeBSD forum someone posted this tutorial:
> >
> > https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd/part_1
> >
> > A lot of work has been done to port NetBSD on the pinephone, even if
> > the battery will not work as stated. I would like to know if this
> > tutorial can be taken as a solid base to port FreeBSD instead of
> > NetBSD. In other words, is FreeBSD so different from NetBSD that the
> > whole procedure can't be useful at all or some part of it can be
> > re-adapted easily? How much efforts and work is needed to adapt it?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> at a glance, this tutorial is worth reading as it contains good
> overview of the whole process. The basics are there. Note it is using
> *OpenBSD*, not *NetBSD* as you wrote, but this is just oversight I
> think. For FreeBSD, you should probably try first running from microSD
> card, not installing to internal eMMC (SD card image for arm64/aarch64
> architecture should be a good start, needs just adding correct U-Boot
> binary).
>
> Regards,
> Milan
>
>

-- 
Mario.