Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:14:57 +0200 From: "John W. Kitz" <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl> To: <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD distribution for ARM processors. Message-ID: <000901ced0c3$6bf791b0$43e6b510$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> 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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Gilbert, Thanks. Do you expect this current position to change in the near future? The reason I'm asking is the fact that I get the impression that there may be developments in the area of hardware development such as the cubietruck (see http://cubieboard.org/2013/09/14/cubietruck-is-put-into-trial-production/) which move ARM based systems closer to general purpose platforms based on architectures such as i386, AMD, SPARC, etc. and which might warrant such a change provided that it is feasible from a perspective of distribution packaging of course. Regards, Jk. -----Original Message----- From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:24 PM To: John.Kitz@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD distribution for ARM processors. "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. Be well.
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