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

[Dennis Clarke]

> 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
> 

Brilliant.

I have the same issue with ppc64 and most certainly for RISC-V where we
are really well and truely in outer darkness.



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Dennis Clarke
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