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Re: Raspberry PI information
> Hello, and happy solstice!
Likewise!
> The ARM ecosystem is large, and NetBSD supports many, many boards. It
> may come as no surprise to learn there are several ways to do many
> things, and the reasons to choose one over another aren't always clear
> or easy to discover.
So I've gathered...
> It'd be nice to have as much of this information in one place as
> possible.
>
> I'll try to answer what I can :)
Thanks for the answers so far!
>> Sorry for this being a bit negative; I'm willing to work with
>> whoever is able to provide me with accurate information in this
>> area.
>
> It's not negative, in my opinion, to express a bit of exasperation now
> and then, particularly when it's in the interest of doing something
> constructive :)
Thanks, that was my hope.
> I'm happy to help however I can. I've collected lots of notes over the
> years - perhaps I should go through them and see what can be used in
> NetBSD's documentation.
Sounds good.
>> 1: status of RPI5 support:
>> As of early 2024, NetBSD does not support the Raspberry Pi 5.
>> but later under "NetBSD current" (unspecified version):
>> RPI5 general support (UEFI firmware required)
>> so which is it?
>
> I got one, and NetBSD under UEFI runs on it, but the last time I
> checked (October, I think), ethernet didn't work and NetBSD can't
> change the processor frequency, so it needs to be set in the UEFI
> menus. I don't remember the status of wifi / Bluetooth.
Hm, OK. I sense a future with an USB-ethernet adapter, and I get
the added fun of figuring out which products work with which
driver and which ones are supported by NetBSD...
> This could be improved, for sure. Other systems, like the Orange Pi 5,
> work surprisingly well with UEFI, much better than with native
> booting.
OK, noted.
>> and which starts by talking about raspi-config. Is that program
>> even available on NetBSD?
>
> No, it isn't. In the past, most documentation had information about
> making changes to config.txt and cmdline.txt, but more recent
> documentation suggests raspi-config without explaining the actual
> changes.
Right, I suspected something like that...
>> Always referring to the "upstream" documentation gives the task
>> of distringuishing betwen "system-dependent" and "Linux-
>> dependent" parts of the documentation, and then finding out how
>> to do the corresponding task in NetBSD is left as a task for the
>> user to figure out.
>
> Yes, this makes it hard for me even though I've been using Raspberry
> Pis of every kind since they came out. I can only wonder at what a
> beginner would make of it.
On the ARM hardware front that's basically where I am at the
moment.
Send me a note if you want or need help to write, or to reivew
modifications; I can play inexperienced arm hardware user all day :)
The goal should be to make it a bit easier for new users to start
using this hardware + OS combination.
Regards,
- Håvard
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