Re: Radxa Zero and FreeBSD : happy marriage ?

I was gifted a Radxa many years ago...  And it looked like a lot of work to
bring things up on it, not least because the boot loader was weird to even
get started with uboot, and the uboot you needed was a fork of an ancient
branch of upstream uboot. Tha AmLogic datasheets at the time were
unobtanium, but have since become findable (I'm told by someone I chatted
about the Radxa at I think BSDcan over beers before covid). I gave up due
to the large amount of work it would have been to translate everything from
just the Linux sources.

Warner

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Amlogic is not supported in FreeBSD at all and nobody is working on this
> SoC, so if I were you I wouldn't buy it.
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 10:49 PM Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I see more development with this model :
>>
>> http://radxa.com/products/zeros/zero3e/#techspec
>>
>> according to this thread :
>>
>> https://forum.radxa.com/t/zero-3e-freebsd/20661
>>
>> Unfortunately this soc is not slender as the previous one. And anyway,a
>> lot of functions don't work on FreeBSD.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2024, at 03:02, Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm planning to buy this soc :
>>> > Radxa Zero
>>> >     • Specifications:
>>> >         • CPU: Amlogic S905Y2 quad-core Cortex-A53
>>> >         • RAM: Up to 4GB LPDDR4 (4GB option available)
>>> >         • Ports:
>>> >             • Mini HDMI
>>> >             • Micro USB OTG
>>> >             • Micro USB power
>>> >         • Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0
>>> >
>>> > because I'm trying to assemble a mobile phone powered by FreeBSD. This
>>> soc seems to be the only option available given its performances and
>>> slenderness.
>>> > But what I want to know is how compatible it is with FreeBSD. Are
>>> there some huge unfixed bugs ? Problems with HDMI or whatever ? thanks.
>>>
>>> It does not appear to have a FreeBSD U-Boot port, making it
>>> seem unlikely that the kernel work has been done to support
>>> the soc.
>>>
>>> For reference:
>>>
>>> # ls -dC1 /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-*/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-a13-olinuxino/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-a64-olinuxino/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-bananapi/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-bananapim2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-bhyve-arm64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-bhyve-riscv/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-chip/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-clearfog/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-cubieboard/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-cubieboard2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-cubox-hummingboard/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-firefly-rk3399/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-imx-serial-loader/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-master/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-a64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-m1plus/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-neo-air/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-neo/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-neo2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-r2s/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-r4s/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-nanopi-r5s/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-olimex-a20-som-evb/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-olinuxino-lime/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-olinuxino-lime2-emmc/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-olinuxino-lime2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-one/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-pc-plus/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-pc/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-pc2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-r1/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-zero-plus/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-orangepi-zero/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pandaboard/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pcduino3/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pine-h64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pine64-lts/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pine64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pinebook/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-pinebookpro/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-qemu-arm/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-qemu-arm64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-qemu-riscv64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-quartz64-a/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-quartz64-b/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-riotboard/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rock-pi-4/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rock64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rockpro64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-0-w/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-arm64/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi3-32/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi3/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi4/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-sifive-fu540/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-sifive-fu740/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-sinovoip-bpi-m3/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-sopine-spi/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-sopine/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-starfive-visionfive2/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-tools/
>>> /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-wandboard/
>>>
>>>
>>> ===
>>> Mark Millard
>>> marklmi at yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
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