FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13(lists.freebsd.org) |
FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13(lists.freebsd.org) |
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
Amusing seeing people reacting here on HN to the Apple M1 SoC Linux kernel upstreaming, meanwhile in OpenBSD.. FreeBSD hasn't made any public progress yet on M1 support.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209345
I also wouldn’t fault HN for being more interested in the port for an OS they actually use to a platform they’re intrigued by. Not to say there’s anything wrong with OpenBSD, but I am not interested in switching to it.
Not trying to convince anyone to look at OpenBSD who has no inclination toward *BSD, but out of curiosity, what's missing for you?
A boy can dream this would be the Pi.
Allwinner and Rockchip tend to be pretty solid, as far as SoC go; start here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm
I run multiple machines so it’s not a huge issue if one OS doesn’t do everything I need, but I expect roughly all of the things I want to do to require some kind of VM or emulation under BSD, if it’s even possible at all. So for me, the value proposition is limited. It just seems like more stuff to learn, and I’m not entirely sure what to do with it.
I'm an extremely happy arm64 swift using designer rn.
If OpenBSD is unable to transition to Wayland, that does call into question what it will do in the future. My understanding is that Xorg maintenance basically only extends to Xwayland use cases, so it seems like a fork of Xorg or an alternative would be needed to keep things going in the longer term.
The docs that most recently bit us are pcie/ethernet on the RPi4; I got in touch with Broadcom, who is now in a multi-year effort to figure out how to disperse usable docs (under NDA?) to the broader community. I lost faith after 9ish months of poking and getting back "oh, you know how it is" in response.