[HN Gopher] FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13
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FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13
 
Author : Ducki
Score  : 65 points
Date   : 2021-04-09 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
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| mnd999 wrote:
| Fantastic, congratulations and big thanks to all that made this
| happen. I was outspokenly grumpy when the news came out that this
| wasn't happening, now I'm so pleased it is.
 
| waynesonfire wrote:
| so awesome seeing freebsd adapting.
 
| otterley wrote:
| Mods: Can we update the link? Here is the actual announcement:
| https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-Ap...
 
  | Ducki wrote:
  | Oh, my bad, sorry.
 
  | dang wrote:
  | Changed from https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-
  | announce/2021-Ap.... Thanks!
 
| notaplumber wrote:
| OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but
| arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches
| today.
| 
| https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
| 
| Amusing seeing people reacting here on HN to the Apple M1 SoC
| Linux kernel upstreaming, meanwhile in OpenBSD.. FreeBSD hasn't
| made any public progress yet on M1 support.
| 
| https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2
| 
| https://github.com/openbsd/src/search?q=m1&type=commits
 
  | trasz wrote:
  | FreeBSD has been providing binary packages for aarch64 for
  | quite some time - this doesn't happen only for Tier1; I think
  | even mips64 still gets them.
 
  | jchw wrote:
  | I mean, Hacker News _also_ reacted to that. I still remember
  | the thread!
  | 
  | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209345
  | 
  | I also wouldn't fault HN for being more interested in the port
  | for an OS they actually use to a platform they're intrigued by.
  | Not to say there's anything wrong with OpenBSD, but I am not
  | interested in switching to it.
 
| hibbelig wrote:
| What does this mean for the different devices? Will more be
| supported? I've got a cubietruck and a pinebook pro...
 
  | rwaksmunski wrote:
  | Tier 1 mostly means binary updates and prebuilt packages. More
  | details: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-
  | guide/#archs
 
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