FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black

[Denis Polygalov]

 > Yes, 12.0 works fine.

just for clarification, -
FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE.img
does *not* work for me (same behavior as 11.3 and 11.2).

I understand that there are not enough people in this area
and most of existed are interested in aarch64 but at the
same time imagine a *new* person who wants to do something
with FreeBSD on ARM and the step number one is to get
at lest something to work. So the person is reading wiki
and it says that BBB is well supported, ISO images
are generated regularly on the FreeBSD.org ftp site, consuming
a lot of CPU time and couple of hundreds of Mb of disk space,
so he 'dd' one of them,... second... third...
and obviously losing interest.
Then what should I think about other official ISO images?
Spend money buying BananaPi and get the same result as with BBB?..
Does FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-PINE64.img.xz works
out of the box or only it's bleeding edge snapshot?

For the sake of sanity just at least mark boards that are
not working as 'not working' in the wiki and/or do not
generate RELEASE images tailored to them i.e. *-BEAGLEBONE.img

Regards,
Denis.

On 14/07/2019 4:42 am, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> Excerpts from Ian Lepore's message from Sat 13-Jul-19 11:39:
>> I'm able to boot the most recent 12-stable snapshot on beaglebone
>> black...
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-STABLE-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20190711-r349903.img.xz
>>
>> But there are some long timeout delays on ti_sdhci1 as it boots.
> 
> Yes, 12.0 works fine. Also, after booted off an SD card, the image can be
> dd-ed to the eMMC: perfectly works without SD card (except of spitting out
> hundreds lot of meaningless messages:
> Card did not respond to voltage select! )
> 
> I think, the difference with the previous images (11.x) is the fact that
> u-boot is using EFI and it's a mainline u-boot, whilst the old images used
> one specially tailored for FreeBSD.
> 
> -S
> .
>