Tier 1 support for arm?

[Sean Bruno]

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On 10/26/15 12:40, Matthew Alton wrote:
> Righteous!  I'm designing an appliance using the R-Pi 2 model B
> quad-core. I would really like to go to production with FreeBSD
> rather than Linux. Tier 1 would be sweet.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Adrian Chadd
> <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm using the raspberry pi and raspberry pi 2. I'm hoping that
>> arm64 and the raspberry pi 2 SoC will be tier-1. Same with
>> beaglebone black.
>> 
>> Sean Bruno is doing a great job getting the mips/arm package
>> sets built and working. That's a big step toward 11 being "tier
>> 1" here.
>> 
>> 
>> -a
>> 
>> 

You *should* be able to "pkg install" right now from the latest RPi
and BBB snapshots that Release Engineering is producing and have most
things work.

Xorg should work next month sometime now that we've got the build
dependencies flushed out.  Heck, you might even get something like
XFCE4 to run.

sean


>> 
>> On 26 October 2015 at 09:14, Matthew Alton
>> <matthew.alton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What hardware do you use?
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Adrian Chadd
>>> <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 25 October 2015 at 22:24, Russell Haley
>>>> <russ.haley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm sure I read somewhere that FreeBSD is moving Arm to a
>>>>> tier 1
>> support
>>>>> level as of 11*.  *Can that be confirmed by someone?
>>>> 
>>>> That's the plan. Some of us are already using it as tier-1.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -adrian _______________________________________________ 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Matthew Alton UNIX Systems Programming & Administration
>>> 
>>> "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it
>>> correct, not
>> tried
>>> it." -- Donald Knuth
>> 
> 
> 
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