Re: Nanopi R5S and U-boot from Ports
Søren Schmidt <[email protected]>
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On 12 Feb 2025, at 19.39, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote > >> I'm also using an OrangePi5, I was able to get a stable/14 working with patches gathered from https://personalbsd.org/images/download/. > > If the patches aren not based on tracking mainline Linux on the > schedule FreeBSD ends up using for updates, it seems unlikely > that FreeBSD will go that direction: no signficant, sustained > deviation from the upstream context seems likely. And that is exactly why FreeBSD support for many of these boards are dysfunctional, as soon as one gets it working a new bunch of DTS files are imported that breaks support left, right and center. This adds lots of work for the maintainers. I (for one) have given up on playing catchup and just use my own tree, much less grief and tooth grinding that way, still have the scars from almost 10 years ago as maintainer of “stuff” for over a decade :) Happy to share with anyone that needs it though... -Søren