Re: Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue support (volunteering)
Mark Millard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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On Sep 13, 2024, at 08:55, Zach Metzinger <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a number of these boards and really prefer them to any Pi-thing when I need to throw them out into the field to monitor or control things. > > It was mentioned that support for armv7 was being dropped (or at least it was a consideration) in the current version(s) of FreeBSD. I've built 12.4 and have it running on a BBG; I'm currently building 13.4 to see where it breaks -- I've been told moving to current would be the best way to "revive" support for this board. > > I'd like to do what I can to help keep them included as a viable and supported platform. > > Bare-metal/VxWorks/FreeRTOS C coder by day, so the real challenge is learning the build environment. Not many hours/wk to dedicate to it, but I'll do what I'm able. > > Thanks to FUZxx on freebsd.dev for pointing out this list. See https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ . It lists: Platform Name TARGET_ARCH 13.x Support Tier 14.x Support Tier Projected 15.x Support Tier . . . 32-bit ARMv6 armv6 Tier 2 Tier 3 Unsupported 32-bit ARMv7 armv7 Tier 2 Tier 2 Tier 2 . . . So it is just armv6 that recent commits just removed the code for as far as arm goes. Basically, armv7 is the only 32-bit platform projected to be supported for 15.x . The rest are 64-bit. It would seem likely that 16.x would not support armv7. 13.3-RELEASE included both armv6 (RPI-B) and armv7 (GENERICSD). 13.4-RC?? builds builds are like that as well. 13.4-STABLE snapshot builds are like that as well. 13.4-RELEASE should be as well. 14.*-RELEASE did not include armv6 but did include armv7 (GENERICSD). 14.1-STABLE snapshot builds are like that as well. 15.0-CURRENT snapshot builds do not include armv6 but do include armv7 (GENERICSD). See in: http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/?C=M&O=D http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/?C=M&O=D A bigger issue might be having all the U-Boot support operational for your context(s) (?): https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/u-boot-* === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com