RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit

[Pete Wright]

On 06/08/2016 11:56, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Your builds would be ARMv7, correct? As far as I know, there are no
>> ARMv8 BeagleBone boards.
> 
> Oh, I could be very mistaken- perhaps someone on list could help me understand this- (searching the web isn't helping me here),
> 
> Can anyone on list here help me clarify the ARMv7 or ARMv8 architectures?
> 
> --
> I have a couple of Beaglebone Black boards, I'm unclear if it's ARMv7 or ARMv8, because all the Beagleboard/TexasInstruments literature just says "Cortex-A8".
> 
> https://beagleboard.org/black
> https://www.ti.com/product/am3358
> 
> It's a 32 bit cpu, but no mention of ARMv7 there?
> 
> Interestingly, I see there's a ton of new excitement for ARMv8, (SO WISH I WAS THERE!)
> https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/549.en.html
> 
> yet from searching the net, the ARM page in the FreeBSD wiki currently has no mention of ARMv8,
>   https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm
> 
> I may just be searching poorly :)
> 


the timing is pretty good on this discussion.  the freebsd journal that
just went live today has several articles on ARMv8 that may be of interest:

https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication?i=307616

-pete


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Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org