From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 24 18:22:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C445EF0C for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:22:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qe0-x236.google.com (mail-qe0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8631D20EC for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f54.google.com with SMTP id 1so1705190qec.13 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:22:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=U9/fgeHPFhKgibQnH+Yl3Y9qYrQ8WR3JDOMfAH6LByI=; b=F2yCl4zelkN7J2ni68gtr7LqfVXBwbnfhPBvQvi3JFO/ZlP0isPXc4zjq1Drdc3arL B90Hk587q5Qlu7MJLuWErqqU4feXwa0I9QagqqQsDvglrZWeYrU2XmmeqSpQvZYu5JZS A9WUwDeC81MUpZvl4z4jkJbdQZOjDKB4swH2T3cWgXVY1HAdH1JTtGFG85P55kiGg6pN E1RkFIqTe+bp/+F3HmWVsWRkZ25AnAaIoTGinBK7P2ZqmynYhPu2og0CxAw52tVQwMbB W5sa5Z2B9vF3qQm/CaooAHE9wKEhxEf2SQkBROyfu0wX4vAqiUaTjEhwi2lGjKvRwkbi IoFw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.51.131 with SMTP id d3mr6114650qag.0.1382638975657; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.207.66 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:22:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <526831dc.e3f9c20a.188e.fffffd02SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> References: <526831dc.e3f9c20a.188e.fffffd02SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:22:55 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cBZCceKgUry5tCxrs-lQwin_CS4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD distribution for ARM processors. From: Adrian Chadd To: John.Kitz@xs4all.nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:22:56 -0000 Hi! On 23 October 2013 13:30, John W. Kitz wrote: > Hi, > > > > 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). > > It's happening. It may not happen for 10.0 but the vague plan is to get generic MIPS/ARM install environments with customisations for how you get the image onto various devices. -adrian