FreeBSD under VMware ESXi ARM Fling

[Vincent Milum Jr]

Most of those instructions are just for "update the RPi's firmware" - if
you're on a new enough firmware already, you can skip that entire section
involving Raspberry Pi OS.

After that, they just provide an installer image which can be used to
install to either local storage, or remote network storage. It is being
treated more like a typical x86 workflow rather than what we're more
familiar with for ARM/SBC workflows.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:40 AM Robert Crowston <crowston at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> > According to the ESXi devs, there is no SIO controller currently, and I
> believe this is required for the virtual serial ports to work
> > https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition/bugs/1104
>
> I do think this a requirement. Indeed, a UART is detected in your dmesg:
>
> uart0: <16550 or compatible> mem 0x3fff03f8-0x3fff03ff irq 5 on ofwbus0
> uart0: console (230400,n,8,1)
>
> Is it not exposed on the host?
>
> If we cannot debug, a verbose boot would at least add some colour. Could
> you add boot_verbose="YES" to /etc/loader.conf?
>
> I took a look at the instructions for getting this up and running on my
> own Pi. It is certainly a lot of instructions. It is a shame they do not
> just provide a .img I could flash to an sdcard.
>
>     -- RHC.
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