Re: Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue support (volunteering)

On Sep 19, 2024, at 07:36, Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 9/18/24 08:32, void wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 09:44:06AM +0300, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
>>> so any opinions with this arm situation?
>> The way I'm addressing it is to install netbsd on arm6 and arm7 devices.
> 
> Hello Suley-Madis,
> 
> The way I'm addressing it is to help convert the new device tree file to something FreeBSD can use. Spare cycles are rare, but it is progressing.

As I understand things, FreeBSD does not have examples of FreeBSD
specific Device Tree sources and is not currently set up to
support such of itself. The general expectation is to have the
kernel updated to track the imported mainline Linux device trees.

There is the example of using device trees from a different Linux
for the RPi*'s (unmodified binary *.dtb files). That is handled
via involving a port: sysutils/rpi-firmware . But the RPi*'s tend
to work differently for what needs to be done as well.

If you are planning on FreeBSD specific source files for some
device trees, you might want to ask about how that should fit
into FreeBSD and you might have to provide the changes to
allow such unless involving a new port can cover the issue.

> Ranting about lack of support is not likely to improve the situation. Putting your valuable personal time on the line just might.

It looked to me to be just a note that NetBSD is an alternative
that folks can use.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com