diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pinephone.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pinephone.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..896b48bb7f --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pinephone.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +=== Pinephone Pro Support + +Links: + +link:https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro[Repository on Codeberg] URL: link:https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro[] + +Contact: Toby Kurien + +The project to port FreeBSD over to the Pinephone Pro is progressing. +The aim of this project is to step by step support components of the Pinephone Pro in FreeBSD so that the device one day might be usable as a highly mobile FreeBSD device. +  +In this quarter, console output to the screen was enabled, using EFI framebuffer support. +This requires using a specific version of U-boot that sets up the EFI framebuffer, which FreeBSD's kernel is then able to use for output while booting up. +While this comes with limitations (like no hardware acceleration), it is a big step forward in making FreeBSD usable on the PinePhone Pro. +To make it easier to try the current code changes out, a script was added to the repository to create a flashable image for booting from an SD card. +This script downloads and patches a FreeBSD CURRENT mini-memstick image with the custom device tree and kernel. +The resulting image can then be copied to an SD card using dd and booted up on the phone. +See the repo for details. + +Work on enabling the USB port was started but has stalled and help is needed, particularly from someone who understands the USB subsystem and can help move this forward. +Currently, some USB controllers are detected by FreeBSD but no USB devices are visible, e.g. the internally connected modem. +Help is also needed to port the WiFi driver from Linux, which would be the same driver needed for Raspberry Pi 3b+/4/5 (Broadcom 43455 wifi module connected via SDIO). +Anyone wanting to assist can contact me by e-mail. + +See the post on the FreeBSD Forum for more: +https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/porting-freebsd-to-pinephone-pro-help-needed.95948/ + +Sponsor: Honeyguide Group diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pot.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pot.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bee35dfaa --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/pot.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +=== Containers and FreeBSD: Pot, Potluck and Potman + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/bsdpot[Pot organization on Github] URL: link:https://github.com/bsdpot[] + +Contact: Luca Pizzamiglio (Pot) + +Contact: Bretton Vine (Potluck) + +Contact: Michael Gmelin (Potman) + +Pot is a jail management tool that link:https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-01-2020-03/#pot-and-the-nomad-pot-driver[also supports orchestration through Nomad]. +Potluck aims to be to FreeBSD and Pot what Dockerhub is to Linux and Docker: a repository of Pot flavours and complete container images for usage with Pot and in many cases Nomad. + +During this quarter, there was a new link:https://github.com/bsdpot/pot/releases/tag/0.16.1[Pot release 0.16.1] which includes a number of minor fixes. The FreeBSD port was updated accordingly. + +Potluck got a new link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/onlyoffice-documentserver[OnlyOffice Documentserver] image that can be used together with the link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/nextcloud-nginx-nomad[Nextcloud] image. +Additionally, a large number of images have received improvements and bug fixes again, e.g. link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/nextcloud-spreed-signalling[Nextcloud Spreed], link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/grafana[Grafana], link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/vault[Vault] or link:https://github.com/bsdpot/potluck/tree/master/consul[Consul] and all images have been rebuilt for an updated base image. + +Last not least, we are in the process of moving the main repository to Codeberg with Github acting as a mirror. + +As always, feedback and patches are welcome. + +Sponsors: Nikulipe UAB, Honeyguide Group