Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 30 23:32:24 UTC 2021


On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 22:52 +0000, Dan Kotowski wrote:
> > `guess SFP+ would need more special driver-attention ...
> > from quick reading around the web I guess the DPAA2 also needs a
> > closed source binary blob.
> 
> So this actually comes from NXP, not SolidRun. Linux already has
> some/most of what's needed, and the license is GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-
> Clause so there's hope, but I haven't heard a peep from NXP and
> SolidRun doesn't really have the manpower to port to FreeBSD
> themselves.
> 
> 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/

That's actually very good news.  If it's dual-licensed it can be
included in freebsd without any drama.  Still needs porting work, or
maybe it could run using the linuxkpi stuff?

-- Ian




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