Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Carl Johnson carlj at peak.org
Sun Mar 28 03:51:43 UTC 2021


Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> writes:

> Hi everyone,
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Please, tell me.
> Andy

I have 13.0-RC3 working well on a RPi 4B with 8GB RAM.  The only problem
I have is the efifb is working with very low resolution, and that would
unusable for my desktop use.  It current reports "VT(efifb): resolution
592x448" on a 1280x1024 monitor, but I haven't figured out a way to use
the full monitor resolution.  Raspbian does work properly, and my RPi 2B
running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE also works properly with the same monitor,
but they don't use efifb.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org



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