Re: FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img boots kernel 13.0-CURRENT on a Wandboard

On Mar 23, 2025, at 05:09, Ulrich Grey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running a Wandboard-quad:
> 
> U-Boot 2019.07 (Sep 27 2019 - 03:40:59 +0000)
> CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
> 
> using:
> 
> FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img image.
> 
> But dmesg says:
> 
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r352778 GENERIC arm
> 
> uname -a shows:
> 
> FreeBSD wandy.privat 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r352778 GENERIC arm

I expect that the oddity is local to your context somehow. I
checked via the sequence below and the kernel strings found
do not match what you report:

# fetch https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.5/FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz
FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.x         438 MB   39 MBps    12s

# unxz FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz

# strings FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img | grep "13.5-RELEASE" | more
@(#)FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC
13.5-RELEASE
@(#)FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC
13.5-RELEASE
USERLAND_VERSION="13.5-RELEASE"

# strings FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img | grep "13.0-CURRENT" | more
# 

If you still have the .img file, you might want to try the same
sort of strings and grep sequences and report what you get as
results.

Note: USERLAND_VERSION is from /bin/freebsd-version .


> But /etc/os-release says:
> 
> # less /etc/os-release 
> NAME=FreeBSD
> VERSION="13.5-RELEASE"
> VERSION_ID="13.5"
> ID=freebsd
> ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
> PRETTY_NAME="FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE"
> CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:13.5"
> HOME_URL="https://FreeBSD.org/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/"
> 
> During boot I get Warnings:
> 
> KLD if_ffec.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> KLD mac_ntpd.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> KLD nullfs.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> 
> I have built a new world and kernel on the Wandboard using 13.5-RELEASE sources from git.
> There is no change.
> 
> What is wrong?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ulrich Grey (I am not a native English speaker.)



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