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

[Greg V]

On July 15, 2019 9:04:56 PM GMT+03:00, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:41:46 -0400
>George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-07-14 13:44, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:04:30AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
>> >> [...] 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.
>> > [...]
>> 
>> Both of you are right.  But despite my own forlorn hope a few years
>back
>> that ARM would become a fully-fledged Tier 1 platform, the
>fragmentation
>> of the market has made it impossible.  But I still hope that maybe
>three
>> or four widely popular ARM boards (Raspberry Pi being the most
>obvious
>> possibility) might individually be declared Tier 1.            --
>George
>> 
>
>If we promote an ARM board to tier-1 this will never be one of the RPI.
> None of the active ARM FreeBSD developper works on it (and don't
>really want to as the board and the docs just sucks).
> Just go with Allwinner or IMX6 based board and you will be good.

I would expect generic ACPI "SBSA-ish" aarch64 to be promoted to tier-1 before any of the embedded stuff..