RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi

Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi by eschaton on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:25PM (#10081914)

I thought the RPi 2 was armv7, why is the image for it using armv6?

Does BSD support fat/multi-architecture binaries?

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Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi by jpablo on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:09PM (#10082207)

It's the same approach the official Linux Raspberry PI images follow that way you can support all raspberry pi versions with a single images.

There potentially could be an speed up by rebuilding everything for armv7 (specially for NEON-fp) but no one has done it yet.

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Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi by aerique on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @07:02PM (#10082777)

Any idea what kind of speedup one could expect?

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Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi by feld on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @07:16PM (#10082827)

I don't know, but I would assume it's similar to setting CPUTYPE in your make.conf so binaries are built with some cpu-specific asm for your specific flavor of x86 CPU: you'll get a performance boost, but nothing mind-blowing.

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Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi by zxombie on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @06:40PM (#10082684)

Because, on FreeBSD, armv6 is for 32-bit ARMv6 and later platforms. The userland is shared between all armv6 SoCs, however the kernel is targeted depending on the architectures it will boot on and will be built for ARMv7 when applicable.

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