Re: build a custom installation image for ARM RBPI

On 9/21/2021 10:41, Stefan Parvu wrote:

>> Ok. Are there any available guides, manuals on this or how can I get started?  Is it complicated?
>>
>>
>> Stefan

Crochet is a git project -- https://github.com/freebsd/crochet

Contrary to the docs (which do not mention it) it works with the PI3 
*but* you have to pay attention to both the loader issue (you need 
loader.efi, not the older boot1 in the EFI partition on the card; the 
older loader stopped working with 12.1ish) and the current in-package 
RPI u-boot copy is boogered for the Pi3 and will not find the SD card so 
you need the u-boot file from roughly April-ish which works fine.

I have figured out how to (on the RPI3) use the native package system 
since packages for that processor are now part of the official package 
tree, to populate a build as well.  That's fairly simple  If you are 
using a RPI2 (which I still have some of in use) you need poudriere on 
your build host set up to cross-build the packages and keep them locally 
because there is no direct package support for that CPU.

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