arm board purchase for 2017

Brad Davis brd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 23 16:08:17 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:38:54PM -0800, jungle boogie wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'd like to purchase a SoC arm system and run FreeBSD on it and possibly 
> openbsd, if it's supported. My go to purchase I was thinking of was a 
> raspberry pi3 because of the great support coming along with it in FreeBSD.
> 
> At the moment I don't plan on doing any hardware hacking, mostly 
> software stuff like seeing how freeswitch would run/build on freebsd 
> ARM, postgres building, possibly tinc and dn42 VPN stuff, etc.
> 
> Is the raspberry pi the preferred board for software hacking, or is 
> there something a bit better but still under $100US that's preferred?
> 
> Contenders I'm aware of:
> banana pi
> cubieboard
> odroid
> pandaboard
> parallela
> raspberry pi
> 
> I own a beaglebone black right now and it runs -current. I also own a 
> pine64, which is running Debian. I haven't yet tried out freeBSD on it. 
> I know (and thankful for) Brad makes images for it. Does anyone know how 
> it's performing?

I have not run Debian on a Pine64, so I have no idea how it runs, but I
am very happy with the FreeBSD performance on it.

The only downside currently is the lack of HDMI support.


Regards,
Brad Davis



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