FreeBSD 13.x for arm does support armV5 ?

[ziomario]

Hello.

just to be sure. If you read here :

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/

it says :

FreeBSD/arm previously supported ARMv4 and ARMv5 processors which were deprecated in 13.0.

So,no,it seems that I can't use 13. And the lastest version prior 13 is 12.04,that's going EOL on 31/12/2023. Is that correct ?

thanks.

 

[SirDice]

that's going EOL on 31/12/2023

The entire 12 major branch will be EoL at the end of the year, yes.

 

[ziomario]

Is there any alternative to use armV5 on 13.x ? I need to do :

# make TARGET_ARCH=armv5 DESTDIR=/build installworld distribution

 

[covacat]

isn't your chromebook armv7 ?
why would you want v5 ?

 

[ziomario]

as you can see,this is what happens when I use FreeBSD 13.2 :

/usr/src-head@269385 # make TARGET_ARCH=armv5 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildworld buildkernel
make[1]: "/usr/src-head@269385/Makefile.inc1" line 151: Unknown target armv5:armv5.

make[1]: stopped in /usr/src-head@269385
*** Error code 1

 

[ziomario]

isn't your chromebook armv7 ?
why would you want v5 ?

you can read the reason here : https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...-boot-on-my-arm-chromebook.91499/#post-635646