Re: Raspbery Pi support (release notes/wiki page) update? (RPI5)

On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:28, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/4/25 02:40, Paul Floyd wrote:
>> On 03-02-25 11:33, Ronald Klop wrote:
>>> Paul, or somebody else with a working RPI5,
>>> 
>>> Would you be able to post the boot messages online? Preferably the full output on serial console. (Similar to what I did in https:// wiki.freebsd.org/RonaldKlop/Raspberry%20Pi%205%2016GB <https:// wiki.freebsd.org/RonaldKlop/Raspberry%20Pi%205%2016GB>)
>>> Or at least the content of /var/run/dmesg.boot? (on wiki or on https:// dmesgd.nycbug.org/) <https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/>
>>> 
>>> That would make it possible to compare differences between RPI revisions.
>> Hi
>> I'll have a go when I have a free moment. I don't normally use a serial console so it might just be dmesg.boot.
> 
> 
>    I apologize for the noise and rampant complaints on the maillist.
> 
>    Someone just revealed to me that there is a supported ARM hardware
>    list :
> 
>        https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/hardware/#proc-arm-64
> 
>    Clearly the Raspberry 5 is *not* there.
> 
>    Also, at the very bottom of the page :
> 
>        https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205
> 
>    I see the words "Ethernet only via USB, uses up one USB port."
>    There I also see "Network occasionally fails to start."

FYI: I've never observed my USB3 EtherNet dongle failing to start
on the original-vintage 8 GiByte RPi5 that I have access to.

>    So therefore my shiney new gifted to me RPi5 with 8G will have
>    to run some Linux variant. For now.

If it is new, it might be a 2712d0 instead of a 2712c1 --so the
*.dtb file used might be distinct from the original one.

> -- 
> --
> Dennis Clarke
> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
> UNIX and Linux spoken
> 
> PS: Yes I had Linux on ARMv7l running for years. Just fine.




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