Hopefully, and I’m happy to be wrong, a simple solution to making #FreeBSD #ARM64 images significantly more joyous:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293574
A modest proposal if you will.
Not in the PR but I’ll add it if appropriate:
1. makefs/mkimg operate unprivileged, unlike gpart.
2. No, OpenZFS will not set your board on fire. You can set the primary cache to “metadata” or disable it entirely. You can also, though not recommended, disable checksumming and oh no! An ordinary file system with many awesome features remaining.
3. Yeah so I was not clear from today’s call if you base packages such as “FreeBSD-src*” and “FreeBSD-dtb” are internally “platform-specific” event though they’re just a bunch of files without many, if any executables.
It would sure be handy to install these across architectures. (Building ARM64 images on AMD64 to begin with.)
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