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

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 ;...

Compiling github Ghostbsd-src source code in October 2023   on a FreeBSD computer ( Raspberry Pi 4B Freebsd.org/where snapshot ).  Select one to be your stable platform that you use FreeBSD Clang compilers to build GhostBSD from source code into a Kernel.image that you can write a created image file into a USB flash drive with 'dd' command.   https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/     https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz   Use this 13.2-RELEASE  FreeBSD as a platform to compile and build Adventurous and daring,  ready to solve your own problems?  Give 14.0-STABLE or 15.0-CURRENT  https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/ 15.0-CURRENT aarch64 https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/index.html Learning ZFS on Root Setup for Raspberry Pi 4B. h ttps://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/v4b5oj/freebsd_on_zfs_on_raspberry_pi/?onetap_auto=true   And now... the scripts! They also live at  https://gist.github.com/jwatzman/8a53dcdd3084d595c6d5918f4a2a0527 . https://twitter.com/finster_fred/status/1680774277224869889?s=20 @linuxhintdotcom  Author - Shahriar Shovon    Thanks for the training you gave me with this ZFS material.  I benefited from your creative web post, to use creating a ZFS install to Raspberry Pi 4B USB SSD  https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2022/09/freebsd-140-compiling-kernel-for.html   Fred's Blog post about installing FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT onto a USB SSD drive using command 'bsdinstall' https://linuxhint.com/mount-zfs-filesystems-in-different-directoris/ Great explanation and examples of creating a ZFS ZPOOL commands: zpool list zpool import zfs get mounted,canmo...

 Poudriere,  update Raspberry Pi 4B FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT packages & source code release  Modified July 29, 2023 Update the Source, Luke.  Before engaging the Drive login to root user account on Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 gigs dram and wired Ethernet connection to internet pkg update pkg upgrade portsnap  fetch update cd  /usr/src git -C /usr/src pull --ff-only  Installing FreeBSD Source Code 14.0-CURRENT to /usr/src Originally download original /usr/src code head for FreeBSD cd /usr git -C /usr clone -o freebsd -b main --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git src – https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/keme3b/heads_up_freebsd_changing_from_subversion_to_git/ghxggjm/ EXAMPLE: root@generic-arm64:/usr/src # pwd /usr/src root@generic-arm64:/usr/src # cd /usr root@generic-arm64:/usr # git -C /usr clone -o freebsd -b main --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git src Cloning into 'src'... remote: Enumerating objects: 98541, done. remote: Counting obje...

 GPIO Pins  on Raspberry Pi 4B;   How to use them in FreeBSD. Useful  RaspberryPi and FreeBSD documentation to help understand UART3 usage on a Raspberry Pi 4B.    Looking to enable and setup UART3 for a serial 9600 baud GPS data stream. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpioctl&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE+and+Ports   GPIOCTL  gpio pin control  manual page https://github.com/raspberrypi/utils/blob/master/ovmerge/ovmerge   OVMERGE Tool https://blog.khubla.com/freebsd/understanding-the-raspberry-pi-freebsd-gpio-device    GPIO device understanding blog,  KHubla Blog 2013 , https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/raspberrypi-kernel_1.20210303-1/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/ Latest January 2023  Raspberry Pi firmware from Raspberrypi.com https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/releases/tag/1.20230106 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tags/ https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/fr...