Re: https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 unusable for FreeBSD since at least Sept 2023

On Jan 20, 2024, at 09:27, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> I found there were i/o performance problems with 13.1 msdos materials and 14-stable OS,
> so tried again this time with the very latest -current 
> FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240118-7a4d1d1df0b2-267640.img
> and wrote that in the usual way to the usb3 disk and this time it didn't 
> try tftp booting, so, this problem is 'fixed'.

That likely has U-Boot 2024.01 instead.

> The only downside being that I couldn't make different ufs2 partitions with this
> installation method obviously.
> 
> But it's not really a 'downside'; I'll live with it. disk i/o performance seems to be
> fine so far. Thanks everyone for your help & suggestions.

Glad you got an acceptable combination.

I'll note that pkg base is also providing a non-DEBUG
main [so: 15] kernel, in addition to the DEBUG one.
(Both have symbols available.) I just started my pkg
base experiments last night. (I started from a
snapshot.) pkg base does not directly deal with some
of the msdosfs content of itself. But it can provide
for regular updates being available and installable
without building from source code, including the
non-debug kernel.

I've also set up a pkg base stable/14 media.

pkg base may make 1 GiByte stable/* and main systems
viable longer by avoiding buidlworld buildkernel and
such (for those needing no tailoring that buildworld
buildkernel allow for).

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com