raspberry pi 4

Andreas Schwarz freebsd.asc at strcmp.org
Wed Jul 10 17:49:11 UTC 2019


On 10.07.19, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
> On 7/9/19 8:17 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:52:43AM +0900, Denis Polygalov wrote:
>>> but please let's enhance support of the good OS (FreeBSD)
>>> on a *good* boards.
>> Despite any technical advantages or disadvantages, RPI has the most
>> mindshare, and we would be foolish to avoid it.
>
> Indeed. SBCs come and go. They are EOL before we even have a boot
> prompt. Personally I would like to see a joint effort focused on one
> board and make that work really well. Maybe an incentive would be the
> foundation throwing money at it in the form of rewards for well defined
> sub projects. The one most likely to survive longest is RPI but there
> might be other valid alternatives as well. Thanks to Emmanuel's efforts
> maybe Pine64 is a good alternative? I'm happy to help with graphics if
> we would do such focused effort but as long as we're all over the place
> I don't see much point in contributing with the limited time I have...

Pine64 and Pine64-LTS are fine, but I've still the problem (for years now) 
that reboots via cli are not 100% reliable, in many cases the system stop 
booting and I need to press the reset button. I don't know the reason, but 
there are many reports related to this issue.

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