Well, lots of the OpenBSD ARM hackers are spending lots of time on Bitrig. I've ported only one feature over to Open, but both side seem happy to share code.
-- Edwin (on the move) > On Mar 11, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Fred <open...@crowsons.com> wrote: > >> On 03/11/15 13:59, Karel Dingeldey wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 07:23PM, Edwin Amsler wrote: >>> >>> Is there an official reason why ARMv7 was excluded from the 5.6 release? >>> I've got my assumptions, but I'd like to know if it was a conscious >>> decision or not. >> >> Hi Edwin, >> >> did you receive any feedback on your question? What assumption would that be? >> >> I'm thinking about using OpenBSD on my BeagleBone Black devices, but >> since 5.6 did not get any armv7 support (without any obvious official >> statement given), I'm wondering if that would be a wise decision right now. >> Even if 5.7 in May appears with it, can I presume that the coming releases >> will all support armv7?! >> >> Wondering what you think about it. >> >> Kind regards >> Karel > > > bbb:fred ~> uname -a; dmesg |head -4 > OpenBSD bbb.crowsons.com 5.7 GENERIC-OMAP#15 armv7 > OpenBSD 5.7-beta (GENERIC-OMAP) #15: Wed Feb 25 15:10:42 AEDT 2015 > j...@armv7.jsg.id.au:/usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/compile/GENERIC-OMAP > real mem = 536870912 (512MB) > avail mem = 518791168 (494MB) > bbb:fred ~> > > My beagle bone black is working with OpenBSD, as shown above. > > There is on going development on armv7, but it is not getting much developer > time, I believe that it was felt that it is in need of further development to > be brought up to release standard. > > I don't have the skills to improve the port, but I do run it successfully. > > hth > > Fred >
