GhostBSD ARM64 porting from x86 code base (RISC-V in the future??)

Creating Ghost14 aarch64 ARM64 boot image from Klara Systems Document. update Dec/10/2023 Image credit to Klara Systems Document https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-customized-freebsd-images/   Read and study this document to understand how to build a bootable image. you need 3 partitions for a minimal bootable image: ESP EFI FAT32  need a 50MB-760MB FAT32 filesystem GPT partition for the U-BOOT files needed by the raspberry pi 4B, 3B, 400 hardware  label esp SWAP space 2 GB on the USB Flash drive stick or on a USB SSD disk device label swapfs GhostBSD rootfs /  for the UFS file system to exist for booting the /boot/kernel/kernel image file.   If you 'dd' write this Ghost14_selfbuilt.img to a 16GB or larger USB Flash Drive Stick device,  You may resize the UFS file system to fill up the unused partition with a larger file space to fill up to the drive size. label rootfs Use resize command with the disk name, ada0, ada1 da0, da1 camcontrol dev...

 FireFox Aarch64 ARM64 FreeBSD Raspberry Pi 4B,  Getting Firefox version 1.20.0_2,2 November 20, 2023   Last Update: 2023-11-20 21:32:36 https://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/#history     Documenting what I do NOT KNOW how to do very well.       Getting the latest version of FireFox running on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT install to my development system.  Turning off WebGL  with the 'about:config' entry to the search URLs field.   Robonuggie, mentioned this trick to get FireFox not to crash when operating. Fred Finster November 25, 2023  https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com I opened a URVXT Terminal window under XFCE on the FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT O/S running my development workstation on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 GB dram, HDMI interface to a TV Monitor, and 1 TerraByte SSD connected to the USB 3.0 host port. logged in as user 'fred'.  switch to 'root' user with 'su -' .  cd /root

XFCE, Mouse, Slim  problems I have solved, somewhat Here are some random URLs and things I did to  file /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf pkg install  xfce4-goodies   xorg x11-wm/xfce4    xorg           See Robonuggies FreeBSD 14.0 for Aarch64 Video    for details and information /boot/loader.conf   file contents: boot_multicons="YES" boot_serial="YES" # console="comconsole" console="comconsole,efi" snd_uaudio_load="YES" kern.vty=vt hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 usbhid_load="YES" To enable a standard USB Mouse on the Raspberry Pi 4B, add these 2 lines to file /boot/loader.conf hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 usbhid_load="YES" File contents for   /etc/rc.conf   on Raspberry Pi 4B fred@rpi-fred4B:~ $ cat /etc/rc.conf # https://gist.github.com/yarwelp/3cae5db566f643437fa2  setup Raspiberry Pi B hostname="rpi-fred4B" # ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP" # set a static address ifconfig_genet0=...

update March 31, 2024  ARM64 Boot USB Flash Drive,  Hey Buddy can you spare some time? Reference the Cliche,  from the 1930's " Hey Buddy can you spare a dime "  Which was a whole days wages back then.  Enough to buy food to eat for a day.    Start with a used or new fresh USB Flash Drive.    Use a  shell script file to create 3 partitions    Use same shell script file to tar extract 2 .tar.gz files into 2 of the partitions   gpart status  da1   gpart show -lp  /dev/da1 Remove USB Flash Drive,  Insert into Raspberry Pi 4B, 400, 3B .  Watch HDMI screen,  turn on power  and see GhostBSD Script boot up GPT UEFI Partitions placed on a USB Flash Drive 4 GhostBSD CLI commands to understand your disk drive setup  camcontrol devlist   geom disk list  gpart status   gpart show -lp Need Help  use  the Manual command to read more information:  man gpart ;...