Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:16:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freesbd-arm@freebsd.org, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: some general questions regarding freebsd on rasp pi Message-ID: <CANCZdfq4stZoMM_EtpZz0rw3DGwH18tMX-DanFRy-mud19noaQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150901155024.GA46253@potato.growveg.org> References: <20150901155024.GA46253@potato.growveg.org>
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:50 AM, John <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org> wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm in a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation with regard to installing > freebsd > on a raspberry pi 2 b+. This pi as I understand it is 64-bit, has 1GB RAM. > Its still a 32-bit arm processor, best supported by the armv6 FreeBSD port. You cannot run arm64 on it because it isn't a 64-bit processor. > I want to use it to run exim, sshd, mutt, slrn and a few other bits. I've > been > looking for a repository of info for all things freebsd-arm but haven't > come up > with much useful and *recent*. Would be grateful if some kind soul could > answer > the following: > > 1. is it just a question of grabbing the iso, burning it to sd card and > rebooting the pi? > Yes. > 2. if [1] is true, for this 64-bit pi, do I use > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150826-r287169.img.xz > > OR > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20150818-r286893-memstick.img.xz > > given that I want to run 64-bit? > You can use either. But there's no way to run 64-bit on the core that's in the RPi2. You simply can't do that, no matter how much you might want to :) > Is there a how-to or walk-through for arm/arm64 that is recent? If there > is, I can't find it. The handbook information on creating SD images from the images the release engineer makes is good. Warner
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