some general questions regarding freebsd on rasp pi

[Tim Kientzle]

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:50 AM, John <freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm in a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation with regard to installing freebsd
> on a raspberry pi 2 b+. This pi as I understand it is 64-bit, has 1GB RAM.
> I want to use it to run exim, sshd, mutt, slrn and a few other bits. I've been
> looking for a repository of info for all things freebsd-arm but haven't come up
> with much useful and *recent*. Would be grateful if some kind soul could answer 
> the following:
> 
> 1. is it just a question of grabbing the iso, burning it to sd card and 
> rebooting the pi?

Yes.

> 
> 2. if [1] is true, for this 64-bit pi, do I use 
> FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150826-r287169.img.xz
> 
> OR
> 
> FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20150818-r286893-memstick.img.xz
> 
> given that I want to run 64-bit?

Use the RPI2 image.  (arm64 is for 64-bit arm; RPI2 is a 32-bit processor).

> 
> Is there a how-to or walk-through for arm/arm64 that is recent? If there
> is, I can't find it.

There is some information on the FreeBSD Wiki for particular boards:

    https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi

And, of course, this mailing list is a good place to ask other related questions.

Tim


> 
> many thanks,
> -- 
> John
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