Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:08:15 -0700 From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: jungle boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arm board purchase for 2017 Message-ID: <20170123160815.GO70816@corpmail.liquidneon.com> In-Reply-To: <16d6ab8d-94fb-38d3-e8ad-1b1daa591355@gmail.com> References: <16d6ab8d-94fb-38d3-e8ad-1b1daa591355@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:38:54PM -0800, jungle boogie wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to purchase a SoC arm system and run FreeBSD on it and possibly > openbsd, if it's supported. My go to purchase I was thinking of was a > raspberry pi3 because of the great support coming along with it in FreeBSD. > > At the moment I don't plan on doing any hardware hacking, mostly > software stuff like seeing how freeswitch would run/build on freebsd > ARM, postgres building, possibly tinc and dn42 VPN stuff, etc. > > Is the raspberry pi the preferred board for software hacking, or is > there something a bit better but still under $100US that's preferred? > > Contenders I'm aware of: > banana pi > cubieboard > odroid > pandaboard > parallela > raspberry pi > > I own a beaglebone black right now and it runs -current. I also own a > pine64, which is running Debian. I haven't yet tried out freeBSD on it. > I know (and thankful for) Brad makes images for it. Does anyone know how > it's performing? I have not run Debian on a Pine64, so I have no idea how it runs, but I am very happy with the FreeBSD performance on it. The only downside currently is the lack of HDMI support. Regards, Brad Davis
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