Solved How can I know what's the FreeBSD's version used in a specific private fork ?

[ziomario]

Hello.

how can I know (if I can) if the author of this private fork used FreeBSD 15-CURRENT as a base,for sure adding his own code on top of it ? Thanks.

https://gitlab.com/ehem/freebsd-src

thanks.

 

[VladiBG]

Forked from FreeBSD / FreeBSD src
5 commits behind the upstream repository.

 

[ziomario]

What it means ? Is it FreeBSD 15 ?

 

[VladiBG]

It's FreeBSD current and yes you can call it 15.

Chapter 26. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD

Information about how to keep a FreeBSD system up-to-date with freebsd-update or Git, how to rebuild and reinstall the entire base system, etc

docs.freebsd.org

There's also RELNOTES with the changes.

 

[ziomario]

Very nice,because I've understood one of the probably reason why I haven't been able to boot FreeBSD as domU with xen : I used the kernel generated by the code of FreeBSD 15 on that repo but with the userland of FreeBSD 13.2

 

[ziomario]

Another error why it does not work is that I have built the world using this command :

# make KERNCONF=GENERIC TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv7 buildworld

but based on this article :

Installing and updating FreeBSD 11.0 release on a Raspberry Pi

Install and update FreeBSD 11.0 on a Raspberry Pi by cross-compiling the system

solence.de

this seems to be more appropriate :

# make KERNCONF=GENERIC TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv7 UBLDR_LOADADDR=0x42004000 buildworld

 

[Cath O'Deray]

xen

Maybe the main branch is not what you want.

Branches · Elliott Mitchell / FreeBSD src · GitLab

Mirror of the FreeBSD source tree

gitlab.com

 

[ziomario]

This commit is fundamental to allow FreeBSD to work as domU under xen for arm32 bit.

xen/arm: enable Xen support on ARM (c16224fa) · Commits · Elliott Mitchell / FreeBSD src · GitLab

While 32-bit platforms are now starting to disappear, support is still available. There was minimal cost to include support for non-64bit platforms, so the Xen support is available. Enable as...

gitlab.com

grahamperrin : is this patch on the main branch ?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

is this patch on the main branch ?

No, the linked commit is on three other branches:

• submit
• phase2
• wip