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

[Mark Linimon]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> That's why I've talked several times in terms of "weekly snapshots" and
> "12-STABLE" which is NOT 12-RELEASE.

Although the FreeBSD FAQ is old, stinky, and rotten, this part is still
valid:

  https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#idp42812792

> Two or three years ago it looked like arm was at the point where it
> should be a tier-1 platform, and I put a lot of effort into things like
> testing releases, because releases that actually work seem like an
> important thing for a tier-1 platform. 

I will have to admit ignorance of the past history, so I can't address
what went wrong there.

But my own view as a very casual user of arm is this:

 - we need more people doing testing (both releases and snapshots), and
   reporting the results.

 - we need to be better about gathering that information together.

IMHO it's impossible (and even if possible, unfair), to expect one person
to test N arm boards.  Also IMHO, the information in the wiki is only as
good as the people who contribute to it make it.

I think I can offer the following page(s) as a proof that we (the FreeBSD
community) *can* do this right, if we put our minds to it:

  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops

Dozens of people have contributed to this page and its sub-pages over
the years.

If enough people are interested, I can put together a page modeled on
this, and we can see where it goes from there.

mcl