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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by epynonymous on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:20PM (#16184132)
good support for raspberry pi or general arm support?
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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by epynonymous on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:32PM (#16184160)
i found this, seems it's been supported for a long time. i'm not ecstatic about the wrappers in ruby/python for gpio, but then again i don't need it at this point in time.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi

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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by bringtheaction on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:20AM (#16185425)
I am a great fan of FreeBSD and I run it as my main OS on one of my two laptops that I use daily.

That being said, last time I tried to run FreeBSD on a Radpberry Pi was not a pleasant experience. That was several years ago though so things may have improved.

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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by floatboth on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:26AM (#16185998)
FreeBSD/arm64 now has official binary packages for 12-CURRENT. RPi3 runs in 64-bit mode with all 4 cores. For the most part, everything is good. But the vc4 KMS driver is not ported yet, so no GPU accelerated desktop for now.
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