On 2019-01-17, Frank Beuth <secli...@boxdan.com> wrote: > (resending as 1st message didn't go through?) > > > Has OpenBSD's support for Raspberry Pi devices improved much with 6.4? All the > documentation I can find online regarding this platform and OpenBSD refers to > 6.3, and suggest that the Raspberry Pi support is very limited (no packages?).
There's quite a decent number of packages: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/packages/aarch64/ > The changelog for 6.4 notes for example: > "Implemented an EFI driver to allow PXE boot over EFIs Simple Network > Protocol, allowing TFTP boot on U-Boot based armv7 and arm64 machines." > > Does this allow installing without a serial console? > > These posts seems to suggest booting from the microSD card (vs needing > external > USB drive) may be possible, but it's not very clear: > http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/OpenBSD-current-doesn-t-boot-on-Raspberry-Pi-3-Model-B-td352103.html > http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/OpenBSD-on-Raspberry-pi-3-model-B-td332780.html#a343278 > > AFAIK the comments here are all still valid: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/OpenBSD-on-Raspberry-pi-3-model-B-tp332780p339439.html - only 64-bit RPis are supported - 3B has ethernet support - 3B+ has no ethernet (but maybe you can add this by adding your own USB device) - No SD/wifi for any of them, you will need a USB storage device I'm not aware of anything changing with console - but it's not a huge expense to get an adapter for serial console, the common CP210x devices supported by uslcom(4) cost about 3(EUR|GBP|USD) from local sellers or less direct from China. (if I was buying a 64-bit ARM device to run OpenBSD on at present, I would be looking at the Rockchip-based PINE64 boards instead).
