FreeBSD 11-CURRENT on Raspberry Pi 512MB

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 6, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:51:03 -0800
> Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama at peach.ne.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've updated the image to SVN r274088 and cpufreq-20141106.
>>> 
>>> It can be downloaded from:
>>> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-RPI-B-test20-r274088-20141106.img.gz
>>> 
>>> include temperature in dev.cpu node
>>> add 256MB swap by default
>> 
>> You’ll need a lot more swap than this if you want to support native
>> buildworld.  I’m using 768MB on my Beaglebones.
>> 
>>> use tmpfs as /tmp and /var/tmp
>> 
>> I keep meaning to experiment and find a good setup for this.
>> Crochet’s Beaglebone images use tmpfs for /var/tmp and I keep running
>> out of inodes when using mergemaster.
>> 
> do you really run a small machine like this alone?

Not alone, no.  I have three of them.  ;-)

I’ve been doing native source upgrades (including port upgrades) on each of my BeagleBones about once a week for quite a while now.  I’m currently trying to get the upgrade process fully automated so I can run two or three upgrades a week instead of just one.

Tim