Frameworks FreeBSD git repo? Is FreeBSD involved at all?

From: Daniel Schaefer <dhs_at_frame.work>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:57:13 UTC
Hi, sorry I was only subscribed to the digest of this list and can't
reply to the correct thread.

> Howdy! I've been lurking, missed this last desktop meeting and hope to
be on the call for the next month.

Great, I'll be there, too!
I'm a software/firmware engineer from Framework responsible for many
of the recent systems.

> https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework
I imagine for the laptops certified (13 then 16) a generalized playbook
or "package bundle" would install the general stuff to make it useful
for a desktop?

Please note that literally the first sentence on that page is "FreeBSD
is not currently an officially supported Operating System".
We're a small team, building a lot of different hardware and don't
have the capacity to fully support FreeBSD.
However, I realized that FreeBSD already works very well, so I started
this repository as a way to track what's working on which systems and
what's missing.

> Are some of the Frame.Work / FreeBSD groups collaborating together at
> all there? Just curious.

Yes, occasionally I invite a couple FreeBSD people to our Taipei
office, hack on some things and let them try out the new hardware.
I would very much welcome external contributions, I cannot maintain
this for all systems and combinations of our growing product pool.
Also I'm not a heavy FreeBSD user, I have contributed a couple fixes,
but I'm better suited giving advice and helping out answering
questions.

> I do believe if FreeBSD could get a solid support for a few key laptop
players, it would help it's adoption and exposure a great deal more.

I absolutely agree, you can see that the FreeBSD foundation has the same idea:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/laptops.md

Cheers,
Daniel