From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mon Jan 23 07:38:57 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1330CBDE92 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jungleboogie0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pf0-x236.google.com (mail-pf0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2D5C341 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jungleboogie0@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pf0-x236.google.com with SMTP id 189so39323015pfu.3 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:38:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:subject:to:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pQHWatfj90EH+EB/wbUp5jOQDaJ738fgDbEfw0EBsQE=; b=aJEAByzBEUGmiEC7hrlRlX0Z6NWBhyfDIViaG2sBgeQkYhNcyz7diLlz7BKNYnIvX9 AiC8gct7oo4XS6DMnNmlgh63W1/zUbF5C/D28UfXAgOrbbxT+6sVFUjubZx9aWRtYKmW FKxE2aMLfWs5Mv9qkFWWqZ9sESEOyHWyHBa70ce/Asjsqt1+/nrkBlReVMvFje1+ULlL tRLf9w5qR9eeNq4dcUY9Aofi7ZpbJjINtTjqlNgtpcMfBPcIuA0kisbnsGcaRPVzpxGC +h6beYowbZs7RUBQOfPpLRe/aWXji7w/Sm8p4IVbAwjwelOb4KJY7L0dBGbkdgk26unb jjRw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:subject:to:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pQHWatfj90EH+EB/wbUp5jOQDaJ738fgDbEfw0EBsQE=; b=t9JH9KF/Gh9bm/lSk7zdM0U6m1LjYwpjxlgHeH7Vy+RAIYOOHv/gik775Klz8qXP00 ChFg27QJo/8WtnU2tXcTva1onSsdIOwOSgsu5er+8Tej1nZgEDFg5WxZKZY/LirBMLAz w635qJOlsYFOn5EbsT3ms952X7UhkHJNW5jLPetfynIkqn1V9WbrkG84e/uj8kbgVHzq p2ZfsIsJWX7qu5ozOI/9yupLIcVXCL3Qzv+Hr7Vmq7wjUHqlnowwiA3PGjy6O+xQx168 ceQMgYqShiu2AV0yX3rsSpYUd2nl9xNV+IvkmAMvdYMr9O94Ecss3vNoLBkqWrxgXqiW YO9g== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXLVElfAcUTrx2DE0r2FPtoeBuCvzoXft8mEq5N8IttraKVCJpy7UG9z+bb0x6Qrqg== X-Received: by 10.98.29.195 with SMTP id d186mr30327254pfd.144.1485157137020; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2600:8801:2a04:2200:9219:b518:c758:ea36? ([2600:8801:2a04:2200:9219:b518:c758:ea36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f188sm26144812pfa.35.2017.01.22.23.38.56 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:38:56 -0800 (PST) From: jungle boogie Subject: arm board purchase for 2017 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Message-ID: <16d6ab8d-94fb-38d3-e8ad-1b1daa591355@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:38:54 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:38:57 -0000 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? Outside the arm world, has anyone tried freeBSD on a MinnowBoard? https://www.minnowboard.org/ Thanks for any input! I did read through this thread but I'm not looking for industrial usage: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2017-January/015443.html Best!