Solved FreeBSD mainline supports at least one board equipped with the Rockchip RK356x ?

[ZioMario]

Hello.

Is there an arm64 board,supported by the FreeBSD mainline (or partially supported) and based on the Rockchip RK356x ? I ask this because the Radxa Zero 3W is not officially supported by FreeBSD and to make work FreeBSD on top of it I should patch the kernel. So if I want to upgrade,for example, FreeBSD from 14.2-RELEASE to 14.3-RELEASE,I can't use the freebsd-update script because it says that it is using the kernel in expert mode and it will be not upgraded. Do you know how it can recognizes that I'm using a kernel patched with code that's not on the mainline ? Does it check the hash number ?

For example,the RockPro RK3399 chipset is used by different boards,like the RockPro64,the Khadas Edge-V and the Renegade Elite ROC-RK3399-PC and other. The large number of the boards equipped with the chipset RK3399 allows me to install one only image to every board of the same kind. So,what I want to know is if the mainline supports at least one board equipped with the Rockchip RK356x so that I can install that image on my Radxa Zero 3W without recompiling the kernel and to boot it is enough to install ED2K-UEFI or patch u-boot.

 

[Phishfry]

Is there an arm64 board,supported by the FreeBSD mainline (or partially supported) and based on the Rockchip RK356x ?

Not that I know of. Look at the 15-RELEASE ALPHA builds. Nothing changed for boards supported.

Index of /releases/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

The last real change was the addition of pinebook images.

In the 'old' days a board manufacturer would release a BSP or Board Support Package for a new product.
This BSP contained source code and documentation so it could be ported to an Operating System.
Today the vendors release several revisions of the same board with minimal support.

Do you know how it can recognizes that I'm using a kernel patched with code that's not on the mainline ? Does it check the hash number ?

That I do not know.