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

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:44:32 +0000
Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> 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.  

 I did test almost every image for 11.0 (I think that GUMSTIX was the
only one I haven't tested) so it's possible but the fact that I didn't
for 12.0 says a lot :)

> 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
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>