From nobody Wed Nov 24 13:48:03 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB5718B3076 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arm@dino.sk) Received: from mailhost.netlabit.sk (mailhost.netlabit.sk [84.245.65.72]) (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 4Hzj5G214kz3qhL for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:48:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arm@dino.sk) Received: from zeta.dino.sk (fw3.dino.sk [84.245.95.254]) (AUTH: LOGIN milan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mailhost.netlabit.sk with ESMTPSA; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:09 +0100 id 00DB3FC5.619E4299.00013F0F Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:03 +0100 From: Milan Obuch To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the best supported SoC by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20211124144803.5cf02572@zeta.dino.sk> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.18.0git295 (GTK+ 2.24.33; i386-portbld-freebsd11.4) List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Hzj5G214kz3qhL X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-arm@dino.sk designates 84.245.65.72 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-arm@dino.sk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.35 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dino.sk]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.93)[0.932]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.985]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROMTLD(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:5578, ipnet:84.245.64.0/18, country:SK]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:29:41 -0500 Juan David Hurtado G wrote: > Hi, I'm working with a raspberry pi for a project. I've been using > raspios for two years. But recently it has become pretty unstable for > our use case (mainly because systemd). Device will host influxdb + > nginx + grafana > > I'm using FreeBSD on my main workstation and on some servers and I > really like all the features so that's why I'm looking to use FreeBSD > here too. > > Few days ago I'm testing FreeBSD on different raspberries but I'm > getting a laggy system in all of them (discussing this in another > thread)... maybe those raspberries are not exactly well supported by > FreeBSD? I guess that if there are bugs it will take time to resolve > them and unfortunately I'm not an OS developer. > > So my question is... In your experience, what SoC do I need to look > better in order to use FreeBSD? If they are close in price to the pi > the better. > > PS: SoC should be able to connect to a network. So ethernet or wifi. I > understand some wifi on the board is not supported. so at least if it > has a usb port for a dongle is ok. > Look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/arm and http://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64 (and some subpages there as well). As an example, boards from Pine64 community (http://www.pine64.org), when supported (newer ones in general take some time to gain FreeBSD support), works quite well. Regards, Milan