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From: Mark Millard In-Reply-To: <86sg4gx7f1.fsf@bay.localnet> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:13:12 -0700 Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <984D85B6-C7C1-4E3D-84FC-FE317AF79F71@yahoo.com> References: <21BE83BC-0667-44F7-83E4-1664A2BC6017@icloud.com> <86sg4gx7f1.fsf@bay.localnet> To: Carl Johnson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3654.60.0.2.21) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F7Rkm0VRMz3n85 X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.50 / 15.00]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr:yahoo.com]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[yahoo.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[yahoo.com,reject]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36647, ipnet:98.137.64.0/20, country:US]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[98.137.64.82:from]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[yahoo.com:dkim]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[yahoo.com:s=s2048]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[98.137.64.82:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[98.137.64.82:from]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[98.137.64.82:from]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 07:13:21 -0000 On 2021-Mar-27, at 20:51, Carl Johnson wrote: > Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm writes: >=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> Please, tell me. >> Andy >=20 > 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. If your RPi4B's config.txt has a line: hdmi_safe=3D1 then try commenting it out with a # or deleting it. As I understand, the line is there by default because some contexts end up with no display at all without it (blind context). But otherwise it ends up preventing the display size tracking, so there is a tradeoff to having it by default. Technically https://elinux.org/RPiconfig documents hdmi_safe=3D1 as an abbreviated way of saying: hdmi_force_hotplug=3D1 hdmi_ignore_edid=3D0xa5000080 config_hdmi_boost=3D4 hdmi_group=3D2 hdmi_mode=3D4 disable_overscan=3D0 overscan_left=3D24 overscan_right=3D24 overscan_top=3D24 overscan_bottom=3D24 so working based on part of the expanded list might be an alternative in some complicated context. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)