OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches today.<p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html</a><p>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.<p><a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2" rel="nofollow">https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2</a><p><a href="https://github.com/openbsd/src/search?q=m1&type=commits" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/openbsd/src/search?q=m1&type=commits</a>
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.
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.
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
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.
Mods: Can we update the link? Here is the actual announcement: <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-April/002030.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-Ap...</a>