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FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13

by Ducki on 4/9/21, 8:10 PM with 33 comments

  • by notaplumber on 4/9/21, 10:03 PM

    OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches today.

    https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

    Amusing seeing people reacting here on HN to the Apple M1 SoC Linux kernel upstreaming, meanwhile in OpenBSD.. FreeBSD hasn't made any public progress yet on M1 support.

    https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2

    https://github.com/openbsd/src/search?q=m1&type=commits

  • by mnd999 on 4/9/21, 9:25 PM

    Fantastic, congratulations and big thanks to all that made this happen. I was outspokenly grumpy when the news came out that this wasn’t happening, now I’m so pleased it is.
  • by flatiron on 4/9/21, 11:01 PM

    I remember when it was x86 only. Free=best x86, open=crazy security and docs nuts, net=runs on university toaster. Times have changed!
  • by ashton314 on 4/10/21, 1:19 AM

    Wait, so does this mean FreeBSD will work better on a raspberry pi without having to hack on your config files just to get it to recognize all available RAM? I’ve got FreeBSD running on a rpi4—took some doing. It would be nice to just slap an image on it and have it work.
  • by hibbelig on 4/9/21, 9:13 PM

    What does this mean for the different devices? Will more be supported? I’ve got a cubietruck and a pinebook pro...
  • by Decabytes on 4/10/21, 11:18 AM

    I’m glad to see this b/c I had a good experience with the RPI3 on FreeBSD but a terrible experience trying to get the RPI4 running on FreeBSD. I think I will still have to use a dongle to run the RPIs on FreeBSD which isn’t great but hopefully the overall setup will be easier
  • by waynesonfire on 4/9/21, 9:28 PM

    so awesome seeing freebsd adapting.
  • by m01 on 4/10/21, 12:15 PM

    It'd be nice if this was a stepping stone towards (the BSD-based) TrueNAS (formerly known as FreeNAS) coming to arm64/AArch64.
  • by ggm on 4/10/21, 1:12 AM

    semi-kinda blob and blob-like exterality depending on rpi4, black magic to make things work with 8gb, nothing insurmountable but I kind of wish in the future some rpi8 doesn't inherit this risk. Absolutely awesome news and welcome news.
  • by otterley on 4/9/21, 9:57 PM

    Mods: Can we update the link? Here is the actual announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-Ap...