There seems to be a lack of 64bit aarch64 images for FreeBSD 11 in general. The images posted at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/ https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/ seems to not be suitable for any of the popular aarch64 devices. I notice that there is a lot of images for devices like the Raspberry PI 3 in the FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT snapshot section. https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/ The corresponding 11.0 section do not have images for these devices. I find it weird that there is a lot of support in FreeBSD 12, but none for FreeBSD 11. And it is also annoying since I happen to need aarch64 FreeBSD 11 in order to test the gcc6-aux port which have an Ada compiler which does not work on FreeBSD 12.
(In reply to Tarjei Jensen from comment #0) rpi3 support is and has been in development as I understand. Such development happens on head/ (CURRENT), not on release/*/ , releng/*/ , or stable/*/ . I do not know if rpi3 support in head involves material that might not be reasonable to Move From CURRENT (MFC) to stable/11/ . But rpi3 support would have to be judged ready for such a move before it would happen. After being in stable/11 (if ever) it would make it into the next release/11.*/ --but not likely before that. I do not know that such a sequence is likely, much less in any short time frame. It may wait for release/12.0/ for all I know.
As pointed out : it is already in release 12.
(In reply to Tarjei Jensen from comment #2) There is no release/12.0/ yet. Only head/ . No releng/12.*/ and no stable/12/ yet. See: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/ compared to: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/
Initial RPI3 development was done on FreeBSD 11, as can be seen at: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/rpi3 Unfortunately, somewhere along the way support for RPI3 on FreeBSD 11 got lost. It would be nice if some TLC could be given to (at the very least) a buildable RPI3 boot image on 11-STABLE.
(In reply to Jonathan Chen from comment #4) As I understand it when release/11.0/ and head split rpi3 support was still considered insufficient for development in stable/11/ or releng/11.*/ or release/11.*/ . So it stayed in head. In fact https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/arm64/RPI3.conf?view=log shows its first version as under 3 months ago: Revision 320252 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] Added Fri Jun 23 00:08:36 2017 UTC (2 months, 2 weeks ago) by gjb File length: 2137 byte(s) This is long after release/11.0/ . Prior to that head did not have an rpi3 snapshots either as I understand.
Last I manually built a RPI3 image against stable/11, it failed to boot properly. It would get far enough into loader where it would panic, and instantly reboot. I have not had time to diagnose this further, but only see the problem on 11.x.
I have confirmed that the 11-STABLE RPI-3 images continue to insta-panic, so it does not make sense to produce these images just yet.
(In reply to Glen Barber from comment #7) Is there any contact with the people who created the v 12.0-CURRENT boot image?
As I understand FreeBSD 11 images are no longer relevant and 12, 13, and main are getting snapshot builds that cover RPi3B* use. Looks like this should be closed either as overcome by events or as fixed.