BSD host of issues on reboot from fresh install

[ashleymills]

I few things I noticed browsing this thread

Unless you have very good reason to use 14-CURRENT (probably not if you're starting out) use the -RELEASE images. 13.0-RC2 (as time of writing) is close to 14-CURRENT and all -CURRENT images have debugging on which eats a lot of performance.
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/relea...AGES/13.0/

I would be a bit cautious about portmaster, while se@freebsd.org is working on it you're likely to run into some rough edges. Pre-built packages are picking up for aarch64 on 13 but some might not still be available and are managed by the pkg tool. You can also either use "ports" (do not run either on a SD-card) and build (compile) packages "manually" or generate packages using Poudriere for a local package repo. Please refer to FreeBSD's handbook as it's very comprehensive about packages and well written overall. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

Video/Desktop support is still pretty barebone, graphics driver is expected to arrive in late summer or so.

In about 98% of all cases aarch64 works the same as x86 so there's very little that works differently so there's usually no need to search for "arm-specific" documentation.

There are a few irc channels which might be helpful such as #freebsdhelp on EFNet keep in mind though that many live in Europe so it can take a while to get a reply, #bsdmips is more techical which probably isn't the "right" forum for general questions. There are also channels on other networks such as freenode. https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels
If you have questions please try looking at the handbook, forums and mailinglists as your answer can probably be found before asking on IRC or mailinglists and please follow http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...#beprecise .

@ashleymills
There's currently no support for big.LITTLE in terms of "split" cpu frequency so all cores runs at 1.4GHz (if you're running powerd) or have set it manually using sysctl
If you're compiling you might want to have a look at the settings mentioned on this page https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/arm...astructure for /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf to reduce compilation time.
If you have the Raxda board working, please submit a patch to the ports repo for u-boot support.

Worth noting is that the network driver is wip so you might not get linespeed.

Thanks for the tips. The Raxda board works fine, the u-boot-rock-pi-4-2020.10 port just needs a config option added to it to select either rockpi A/B or rockpi C, otherwise USB won't work on the C. Only a single line in the ports makefile needs to change. I'll take a look if I have time.