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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:18:50 -0000
From:      beastie@nawi.is
To:        "Brett Wynkoop" <freebsd-arm@wynn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.1 / 11 on a Raspberry Pi B+ / 2 ?
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> On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 08:26:11 -0000
> beastie@nawi.is wrote:
>
>> Yes, I meaned whether it works to buils things (I know, this needs
>> many time).
>
> I have built many things from ports on both my Pi and my BeagleBone
> under both 10.x and now under 11.x
>
>>
>> >
>> > man portsnap
>> >
>> > X is of course in ports.  I am not sure if there is an Xserver that
>> > will build on the box, but I would not be surprised if it did as the
>> > Linux crew has working X and the X sources all come from the same
>> > place.
>> >
>>
>> To find that out, we need to try it and to fix the errors ...
>>
>
> True, but since the hardware specific stuff should be in from xorg
> because the Pi guys put Linux on these things by default I have a
> strong belief it will work.  You might want to boot under Linux and see
> what Xserver setup they use so you can build the same under FreeBSD.
> At the moment I am not worried about X under FreeBSD on my little
> machines.  I have an Xterminal that they will be stuck on the back of
> when I am satisfied that I have them doing what I want.
>
> -Brett
>
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>

The best will be to look how things are done in Raspbian and go with 11
CURRENT.





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