Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:06:57 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black Message-ID: <20190715200657.17c4e2b933abebfb11047e6e@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> <900bc3467c7e28f58e8e6cf17e881bdefcb3b751.camel@freebsd.org> <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:44:32 +0000 Mark Linimon <linimon@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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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