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

On June 30, 2026 4:22:12 PM GMT-03:00, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>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-C=
URRENT-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 spac=
e
>> 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!

Hi Adrian,

I have no idea on how to make it work like that, but I sure can help test=
. I need to reflash it all to try things and it takes too long to make it=
 all work.

I have nanopi R4SE, R5S and orange pi 5 plus to try to help.

Thanks for the hard work :)

Matheus

>
>-adrian
>

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