Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Sat Mar 27 20:28:29 UTC 2021


Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm wrote this message on Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 18:26 +0100:
> I've seen that there are arm machines for FreeBSD other than Raspberry. I've been using it with 14.0-CURRENT, and my skills are too limited for patching it. So, I've decided to find a machine on which a RELEASE or STABLE version would work. To my knowledge, and after many tries, it seems that there are no FreeBSD working smoothly on RPI4 B. 

What features do you need working on it?

> So, if you have any suggestions for a working FreeBSD on any machine, I'd be grateful.
> I won't discard 14.0 CURRENT, as I've done quite a few things which were much fun. It's just for getting other experiences.

I haven't run a recent snapshot, but the Pine64 A64-LTS board has been
a solid board for me...

But I will admit that I use it remotely, so I don't know how good the
display works, or if X will work on it.

https://www.pine64.org/devices/single-board-computers/pine-a64-lts/

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