Does FreeBSD 10 supports ARM well?

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Thu Sep 25 05:02:50 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:25:10 +0200 (CEST)
Andreas Schwarz <freebsd.asc at strcmp.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
you seem to be lucky then.

Erich


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