Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:50:12 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <86im5awrd7.fsf@bay.localnet> In-Reply-To: <86sg4gx7f1.fsf@bay.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:51:14 -0700") References: <21BE83BC-0667-44F7-83E4-1664A2BC6017@icloud.com> <86sg4gx7f1.fsf@bay.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes: > Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> writes: > >> Hi everyone, >> I've seen that there are arm machines for FreeBSD other than >> Raspberry. I've been using it with 14.0-CURRENT, and my skills are too >> limited for patching it. So, I've decided to find a machine on which a >> RELEASE or STABLE version would work. To my knowledge, and after many >> tries, it seems that there are no FreeBSD working smoothly on RPI4 B. >> So, if you have any suggestions for a working FreeBSD on any machine, I'd be grateful. >> I won't discard 14.0 CURRENT, as I've done quite a few things which >> were much fun. It's just for getting other experiences. >> >> Please, tell me. >> Andy > > I have 13.0-RC3 working well on a RPi 4B with 8GB RAM. The only problem > I have is the efifb is working with very low resolution, and that would > unusable for my desktop use. It current reports "VT(efifb): resolution > 592x448" on a 1280x1024 monitor, but I haven't figured out a way to use > the full monitor resolution. Raspbian does work properly, and my RPi 2B > running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE also works properly with the same monitor, > but they don't use efifb. Just for the record, I now have efifb working at full resolution. Mark Millard had suggested off-list that I comment out the 'hdmi_safe=1' line in the /boot/msdos/config.txt file, and it then worked after the next reboot. I also should have mentioned that I am just using the downloaded binary image from freebsd.org that I burned to an SD card. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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