FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-May-24, at 09:46, greg at unrelenting.technology wrote:

. . .

> Also, to rule out firmware bugs, would be good to test Linux and NetBSD with the same firmware.
> (with NVMe, it's something that would definitely get attempted at boot)
> 
> NetBSD -CURRENT: http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/images/NetBSD-9.99.63-evbarm-aarch64.iso
> They don't have memstick images for arm, unfortunately -- idk whether dd'ing an iso image to a usb drive
> would boot, probably not, try tools like rufus maybe.

John McNeill appears to have:

https://www.armbsd.org/arm/

for "NetBSD Arm Bootable Images".

It has 32 NetBSD 9 images and 33 NetBSD -current images.

One is called: Generic 64-bit
for each. NetBSD -current has:

Build: 202005232000Z

(so yesterday's build) and NetBSD 9 has:

Build: 202005222300Z

(so the day before yesterday).

Might one or both of those be appropriate?

> Or assemble your own memstick with what I assume is just the root filesystem image:
> http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz
> plus the boot loader you'd have to place on the EFI partition manually
> http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/installation/misc/bootaa64.efi



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