Re: Orange Pi 6 Plus works (15.1-RELEASE)

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 at 12:05, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6/30/26 11:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > hi! do you have a recipe for building and flashing freebsd on the
> > rockpro64 that I can try?
> >
> > I have that hardware here (as well as bananapi and orangepi coming)
> > and I'd really like to get freebsd-head builds running on these to
> > help people who keep submitting us diffs. :-)
>
> rockpro64 has snapshot and release distributions, for example matching
> the patterns:
>
> <https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/16.0/FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64-*-*-*.img.xz>
>
> <FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-ROCKPRO64.img.xz>
>
> The images can be dd'd to microsd cards or USB media or . . . Booting
> does adjustments, such as adding swap and growing the file system space
> to fit the media.
>
> The bananapi and orangepi do not have such. But one can study how the
> rockpro64 images are built, for example.
>
> Also, these are all UFS based last I knew. You may care about other
> aspects as well. So you may need to specify more context about the end
> result you are after if the releases and snapshots are not sufficient.
>
> So far as I know bsdinstall does not deal with the like of U-Boot and,
> possibly, various things that go on the msdosfs.
>

Thanks, I'll go look at the image building and see how things work out.

Ideally for doing testing I'd like to be able to netboot a kernel+dts,
kernel+dts+rootfs, etc,
without having to reflash the whole unit just to do testing/development.
Since I've been asked to help figure out ethernet, switching, uart, etc code,
I'd like to make sure I can do the testing without having to constantly
reflash things and potentially brick.

Thanks!



-adrian