From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Wed Mar 31 12:18:25 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B7A5C6327 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:18:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Received: from out2.migadu.com (out2.migadu.com [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:aacc::]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F9QMP5j5bz3GcY for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:18:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:18:11 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unrelenting.technology; s=key1; t=1617193095; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Mz//zxwl9c3cmzdUJdBqyubaoKGSQX+1KDpD/+UxXJQ=; b=gaoMmhr/9LjhyMr+M42gQIbmJB6Iko9yU3NAncQp9Xw4q1xNzxGOUMTSmHk1SRKzsN9nlN 5NlLurCuXx7GxDIet+y7e3HX4f6UaeU0ZhAWAbAIfc9D9MDWd6KV5l4paF8zHwxLq7KZy6 EiMNNreVhTlrmgVfwfM3GZTg92YUO7NpOGZuoBj2a07Wwx9ZUfit/NYujkpiZG+Rr8JQG5 SoVFyKfK6mAIJ2ep2db8xy3AeO3eNRf12PWML8Zpk4YqL8s+y/nMkzL2g6b1cYC/DeZGt2 woWEPgZgr1U5pQUj2fmCLkgZI2rhgqJsoIOpTZkvGyM1752ZGD/lmwLRAUwRCQ== X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Greg V To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Thomas David Rivers Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? In-Reply-To: <202103310043.12V0hFqg023324@office.dignus.com> References: <202103310043.12V0hFqg023324@office.dignus.com> Message-ID: <6136F5CE-0E73-4A36-B3B0-CA17C8BEE9AA@unrelenting.technology> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: greg@unrelenting.technology X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F9QMP5j5bz3GcY X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:18:26 -0000 On March 31, 2021 12:43:15 AM UTC, Thomas David Rivers wrote: >I'm wondering why the Mac M1 machines haven't been mentioned? >(Like the newest MacMini=2E=2E=2E) > >Would they not make a good ARM64 machine? Currently only using virtualization=2E Someone would have to make lots of drivers to run bare metal=2E OpenBSD an= d NetBSD have some already, but I'm not aware of any efforts in FreeBSD yet= =2E Apple hardware is *very* non-standard, they don't even use the GIC, having= a custom interrupt controller instead=2E