On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 07:03:18PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > Not sure if it helps, but I had to build ports on the rPI3 last year and > ended up cross compiling on amd64. I wrote down what I did back then here: > https://blog.grem.de/sysadmin/FreeBSD-On-rpi3-With-crochet-2018-10-27-18-00.html >
Some years ago the older hosts in my collection were retired in favor of RPI, mostly for power saving reasons. I've almost gotten away with it. IME, server and command-line ports that I've tried seem to compile and run without much trouble on ARM. Apache, BIND, sendmail and even Xorg work acceptably. Self-hosting was a hair-puller but seems to work ok recently. Many moons ago www/chromium compiled and ran on aarch64 (PI3) as did firefox. If the project offered a precompiled package for any serviceable browser it'd help, but the need isn't great enough to warrant more hardware. In a pinch, Raspbian offers a decent GUI that mostly works. I hopped on the ARM bandwagon expecting it to move somewhat faster than it has. Evidently the hurdles were bigger than anticipated, but the basics still work quite well. Thanks for posting! bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
