Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:03 +0100 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> 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: <CAL3Ut_ahSgD7idLg_%2BoFbMrLJWMyhYMp4NcFQfM5Y%2BJQSiPw_g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAL3Ut_ahSgD7idLg_%2BoFbMrLJWMyhYMp4NcFQfM5Y%2BJQSiPw_g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:29:41 -0500 Juan David Hurtado G <jdhurtado@orbiware.com> 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
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