Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations
- Reply: Dmitry Salychev : "Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations"
- In reply to: Milan Obuch : "Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations"
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 10:41:56 UTC
Milan,why did you stop collaborating with me ? Suddenly you stopped replying. What happened ? On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:33 PM Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2023 12:08:04 +0200 > Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > some days ago on the FreeBSD forum someone posted this tutorial: > > > > https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd/part_1 > > > > A lot of work has been done to port NetBSD on the pinephone, even if > > the battery will not work as stated. I would like to know if this > > tutorial can be taken as a solid base to port FreeBSD instead of > > NetBSD. In other words, is FreeBSD so different from NetBSD that the > > whole procedure can't be useful at all or some part of it can be > > re-adapted easily? How much efforts and work is needed to adapt it? > > > > Hi, > > at a glance, this tutorial is worth reading as it contains good > overview of the whole process. The basics are there. Note it is using > *OpenBSD*, not *NetBSD* as you wrote, but this is just oversight I > think. For FreeBSD, you should probably try first running from microSD > card, not installing to internal eMMC (SD card image for arm64/aarch64 > architecture should be a good start, needs just adding correct U-Boot > binary). > > Regards, > Milan > > -- Mario.