Re: FreeBSD on the pinephone : considerations

Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:

> Milan,why did you stop collaborating with me ? Suddenly you stopped
> replying. What happened ?

It's a little known fact that people on freebsd-arm are busy from time
to time :) Applicable to the other FreeBSD lists though.

>
> 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


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