memstick image for FreeBSD.org/where. I have built my own image using GhostBSD.org sources

> */From:/* John Kennedy <warlock_at_phouka.net>
> */Date:/* Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:37:33 UTC
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:05:25PM +0100, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen wrote:
> > On 29.12.2023 05.55, ykla wrote:
> > > Hi, When will FreeBSD support RPI5
> > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/raspberry-pi-5-status.91406/
>
>    Having ordered my RPI5 ~11/28, I think it has a shipping guesstimate in late
> Jan/early Feb.  It looks like someone is working on uboot, which FreeBSD seems
> to favor (I think the argument I retained was "it works for lots of things,
> piggyback on those efforts rather than have some RPI-unique thing).  Then once
> you start getting things properly enumerated to where you can load the kernel,
> then you work on the kernel drivers.
>
>    RPI seems to favor linux support first, and I suspect that there is a fair
> amount of GPL issues that you might have to worry about creeping into the BSD
> kernel.  So not as simple as reimplement from what you see in linux.  I know
> there are a lot of strong opinions on video drivers, for example, but for that
> to even ben an option it'd have to be something that could be a module that
> could be packaged outside of the BSD base.  I only bring that up because I've
> had garbage luck trying to get serial consoles to work properly on RPIs when
> they're competing for things like cooling fans and such, so graphics console
> is nice, even if it is just very basic.
>
>    How have people been chicken-n-egging the initial setup?  I know there have
> been uboot issues in the past.  Seems like you basically have to build memstick
> style images and see if they boot.  Is there a bhyve/QEMU setup that is a
> generic test setup that is used?
>
And attached to a Pi 400 works like any i7 CPU?  ( a Ugreen case for a 
10Gbps NVMe drive 2280 size

Fred Finster, [1/1/24 3:11 AM]
like an i3+ maybe.   I just looking to build , create an inexpensive 
method to have a real FreeBSD based, desktop computer with keyboard and 
mouse connected to the HDMI input on your 1920x1080 TV Monitor screen 
with sound speakers

http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/
http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/gh14_jan01_arm64_create_disk.tar.xz 
Here is a compressed file to download.  There is a README.txt file 
inside there.  use command to uncompress    tar xvzf gh14_jan01*

you can install X and run XFCE 4.18   with a simple  pkg install xorg 
xfce xfce4-goodies lightdm
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https://freebsd.org/where 
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz


Look GhostBSD is downstream from FreeBSD.  I have built from sources  
github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src  and 
github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-ports  source code.   I have one image to 
burn into a USB flash drive and boot up.   From that image you can 
transfer to a USB SSD drive using ZFS boot on root technology.  i am 
interested to learn how much of the Raspi4B, 400 source code will just 
work on the Raspberry Pi 5 without changes, and how much is quite 
different from RPI 1  one chip interfaces.



-- 
Fred Finster
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