Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:24:11 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John.Kitz@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD distribution for ARM processors. Message-ID: <44bo2ekdj8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <001d01ced02e$aaf29260$00d7b720$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> (John W. Kitz's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:30:08 %2B0200") References: <001d01ced02e$aaf29260$00d7b720$@Kitz@xs4all.nl>
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"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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