From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Wed Jun 8 21:45:00 2016 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 7B9A6B707A6 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6741712F5 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nomadlogic.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF5FD125EE6 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.rubicorp.com (unknown [72.34.113.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nomadlogic.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6B5D125EBA for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <20160607043134.GB22884@mutt-hardenedbsd> <20160607123450.GA75317@mutt-hardenedbsd> <20160608165711.GA63330@mutt-hardenedbsd> <20160608170107.GB63330@mutt-hardenedbsd> <20160608182810.GC63330@mutt-hardenedbsd> <0E28F6C5-96BC-4696-AD8F-C898CA0082D9@blackskyresearch.net> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <4c3b8332-ed5c-26a7-a5b7-fecc9cd1b097@nomadlogic.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:44:53 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0E28F6C5-96BC-4696-AD8F-C898CA0082D9@blackskyresearch.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:45:00 -0000 On 06/08/2016 11:56, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: > >> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Shawn Webb 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 -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org