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The versioning on ARM confuses me frequently, but there is one hopeful line in the article:

> In addition, I've added support for other Allwinner SoCs (sun8i-a83t, sun6i-a31) to the kernel and have tested booting the same kernel across all 3 SoCs.

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The H5 is a member of the sun50i family. It's a 64-bit CPU, so this generic image will never work. FreeBSD has done some recent work on the H5 though, so maybe that'll land in NetBSD soon.

I wouldn't say "will never work". H5 is a Cortex-A53 and NetBSD can boot these just fine in aarch32 mode. The RPI2 kernel for example supports all models (32- and 64-bit) of Raspberry Pi except for the original.

FreeBSD did not do recent work on H5, I would know as it would have been me :) But we should run on it without too much effort (I have hardware, now I need time)

Oof, apologies. I'd have sworn I'd come across some H5 FreeBSD work recently, but clearly was mistaken.

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