Does FreeBSD 10 supports ARM well?

Andreas Schwarz freebsd.asc at strcmp.org
Thu Sep 25 00:25:17 UTC 2014


On 25.09.14, Erich Dollansky wrote:

Hi Erich,

>> > it very much depends on the ARM platform. I run 11 on a Raspberry
>> > B+. The port support is very much limited. Others run 10 and/or 11
>> > on some other platforms.
>> 
>> Working with the ports (tree) is fine so far, there is a lack
>> regarding the precompiled packages.
>> 
> could you compile xterm?

Don't know. I'm not using the X environment with my RPIs. Maybe there are still problems
at some places, but my personal experience is good, no problems anymore. In previous 
times I was forced to keep gcc to build some of the ports.

Regards,
Andreas



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