Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:19:29 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD distribution for ARM processors. Message-ID: <1382627969.29239.38030105.27E38733@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <44bo2ekdj8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <001d01ced02e$aaf29260$00d7b720$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> <44bo2ekdj8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013, at 8:24, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "John W. Kitz" <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl> writes: > > > Can someone please explain the rationale behind not providing a distribution > > for arm based systems, as it seems somewhat illogical to me that > > distributions are available for ia64, powerpc, sparc64 (see > > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html) which are considered Tier 2 architectures > > while the official reason for arm being a Tier 2 architecture is the fact > > that no distribution is provided for it (see > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm.html). > > The ARM port is mostly used for embedded work, for which a formal > distribution would not be helpful. There really aren't many standards > for peripherals beyond i2c, so it wouldn't be possible to support > different ARM-based devices with a single distribution. > ARM-based may soon be coming to a datacenter near you. We might have to find a way to support them like any other arch. Of course embedded will likely continue to be unpredictable.
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