FreeBSD 10.0 is here

Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by pwenzel on Sunday January 19, 2014 @05:35PM (#7086370)

Is it possible to boot FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img directly on a Raspberry Pi? Or do I have to compile my own image for the Pi?

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Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by takeda on Sunday January 19, 2014 @09:05PM (#7087114)

As other told you this version is intended to be used on amd64 CPUs, which means the most popular 64 bit CPUs (both Intel and AMD).

The reason they don't provide ARM version of FreeBSD is because embedded systems are not the same and have different setup. Since Raspberry Pi is quite popular I can imagine that someone might build available to other for download but I wouldn't expect FreeBSD project do it (it probably would be someone else - I see link to images here https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). If you have FreeBSD machine you can compile it yourself.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by pwenzel on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:39PM (#7091929)

My bad, I didn't read the '-amd64-' part clearly.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by revnja on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:10PM (#7086499)

I'm going to guess not as it is marked as being compatible with amd64, you will need an ARM build (arm 6, I believe) for the Raspberry Pi. I'm sure a third party will eventually post a pre-compiled version somewhere fairly soon.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by jsmith0295 on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:46PM (#7086643)

You can't use the amd64 build as the raspberry pi is ARM based. There is likely a raspberry pi build available somewhere though.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.0 is here by octo_t on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:19PM (#7086541)

raspberry pi's are ARM and amd64 is amd64 (for intel/amd processors)

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