|
| 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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