armv6 kernel support for Raspberry Pi 3 in default aarch32 mode

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Sylvain Garrigues <
sylvain at sylvaingarrigues.com> wrote:

>
> > > So what's wrong and what shall be done to make our armv6 kernel boot
> on a
> > > raspberry pi 3?
> >
> > > I am interested in getting directions to make this happen
> (modifications
> > > needed in locore-v6.S?)
> >
> > To my knowledge no one has said they have ever figured this
> > out for FreeBSD: it is a research project for whoever is
> > interested enough to bother.
>
>
> Apparently some people may have, so did Warner say a few weeks ago:
> *"I've been told of people claiming to run a newer rpi2 **(v1.2 or newer)
> in 32-bit mode, but I've not been able to confirm the **people who are
> making the claims."*
> (see this "Creating armv7 MACHINE_ARCH" thread:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=168619+0+/
> usr/local/www/mailindex/archive/2017/freebsd-arm/20170618.freebsd-arm
> )
>

For the record, I was never able to track anybody down that had done it
successfully. It was mostly "I tried the image and it didn't work" or "I
had the old version that worked" when I talked to people about it.

Warner