RPi4b 8GB - kudos to OBSD

[Paul Mather]

On Jan 9, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Andy McClements <ajm at ip-ether.net> wrote:

> I trust this message does not breach any term-of-use for this list.
> 
> However I thought it worth saying that the OpenBSD team have done a great job with their support for the RPi4b 8GB. I used the release version of 6.8 arm64 (miniroot68.img), and the 1.22 release of https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/.
> 
> 8GB RAM
> USB: all working
> GENET: working (not quite as fast as FreeBSD)
> USB boot: no problemo
> 
> This is working fully in pure ACPI mode, NO DEVICE-TREE ! (As far as OS is concerned).
> 
> The only manual intervention required during installation was to copy the EDK2 boot files to the DOS partition.
> 
> The system has not been fully tested yet but so far it appears that 'everything works' :)


FWIW, the same is true of NetBSD on RPi 4, too.


> However I am hoping to continue keeping this shop a 'FreeBSD shop'. Shame the FreeBSD 'genet' driver has no ACPI support..


I, too, hope to be able to switch back over to FreeBSD if/when its Raspberry Pi support improves.  I do acknowledge, though, that FreeBSD developers have historically seen it as not a priority for developer time and resources due to the "closed" nature of its documentation making it difficult to work on.  I respect that stance.

Cheers,

Paul.