Re: The future for support of BeagleBone Black and its variants
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:11:16 UTC
Hi David, The problems are kernel related. If I understand correctly it's in the area of clock definitions I think but I've not properly studied the patches. DTC is good. Regards, George. On 10/8/23 14:52, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi, > > What are the changes to the DTS files? If there are problems with DTC > handling the new files, please can you raise issues here: > https://github.com/davidchisnall/dtc/issues > > If there are problems with the kernel’s handling of the dtb, please > ignore me. > > David > >> On 10 Aug 2023, at 13:24, George Abdelmalik <george@fork.id.au> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> For a long while now CURRENT has not been working on the BBB due to >> incompatible upstream changes in vendor DTS files. I know there are >> some patches available which at least get FreeBSD running but those >> have yet to be incorporated into the project's repository. >> >> This leaves me with the feeling that BBB support in FreeBSD is on the >> path to being dropped. Is there someone from the FreeBSD project that >> could speak directly to this? >> >> As a user it would be helpful to know if I should be searching of an >> alternate SBC platform or another OS for my projects. >> >> If it still remains the plan to keep supporting BBB into 14.0 and >> beyond then I'd like to know what work is missing to make that >> happen. I'm willing and able to help. >> >> Regards, >> George. >> >> >>